[jboss-dev] Re: jgroups version names

[Bela Ban]

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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Bela Ban
Lead JGroups / Clustering Team
JBoss - a division of Red Hat