[jboss-dev] jgroups version names

[Trustin Lee]

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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