[jboss-dev] jgroups version names

[Dimitris Andreadis]

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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