You are right. I was confused. :)
According to the Wiki page Dimitris mentioned [1], there's no _CP
suffix. Is it deprecated by .SP suffix?
[1]
Trustin,
You may be thinking of the cumulative patch versioning convention,
X.Y.Z.ABC_CPnn, e.g.: 4.0.5.GA_CP08
Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> No, it's, X.Y.Z.SP1, X.Y.Z.SP2, ...
>
> SP comes after GA alphabetically, so we are safe.
>
> Trustin Lee wrote:
>> I thought it was X.Y.Z.GA_SP1 and X.Y.Z.GA_SP2 according to the recent
>> discussion, no? I also find GA_SPn has a clearer meaning.
>>
>> 2008-03-04 (화), 14:41 +0200, Dimitris Andreadis 쓰시길:
>>> I think the existing internal versioning scheme of jgroups is fine,
>>> I'm just asking for consistency when putting the binaries in the
>>> repositories, e.g.
>>>
>>> X.Y.Z.Beta1
>>> X.Y.Z.Beta2
>>> X.Y.Z.CR1
>>> X.Y.Z.CR2
>>> X.Y.Z.CR3
>>> X.Y.Z.CR4
>>> X.Y.Z.GA
>>> X.Y.Z.SP1
>>> X.Y.Z.SP2
>>>
>>> Bela Ban wrote:
>>>> Okay, well some releases are adhering to this standard... :-)
>>>>
>>>> I didn't care much for this because it is stupid. Relying on
>>>> strings for version comparison is terrible, as we have to parse the
>>>> strings into component parts (numbers) anyway. Plus we end up with
>>>> kludges like changing RC1 to CR1 so alphabetical ordering still
>>>> works ...
>>>>
>>>> A much better way, and that's what I thought we had adopted, is the
>>>> scheme suggested by Scott in
>>>>
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=77231.
>>>> This allows us to use shorts for major, minor and patch versions,
>>>> and comparisons become simple.
>>>>
>>>> Note that we don't care about comparisons between 2.6.2.CR1 and
>>>> 2.6.2.GA, because the scheme suggested by Scott doesn't care about
>>>> the qualifier. These 2 versions are both the same the point of the
>>>> version number.
>>>>
>>>> Having said that, if this cannot convince you, I can adhere to the
>>>> version numbering scheme, that's not an issue for me, as the
>>>> underlying version stays the same, it is just the strig that changes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>>>>> - You're missing some '.GA' suffixes (e.g. 2.5.2 in both
repos,
>>>>> 2.6.2 maven only)
>>>>> - Some versions appear both with & without the '.GA'
suffix (e.g.
>>>>> latest 2.6.2 in the legacy repo)
>>>>> - In some cases using '-' instead of '.' (e.g.
2.5.0-GA, maven repo)
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I missing something?
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