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On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:47:02AM +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> foo-1.0b |
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> foo-1.0.1 |
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> Now the question is: Which version is considered newer? |
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That question may be meaningless. |
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The Hercules emulator uses the following version numbering convention: |
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v.rr: Major releases. |
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v.rr.m: Maintenance releases, based on the corresponding v.rr. |
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v.rr.lm: Development snapshots, based on the corresponding v.rr. |
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For example, the current release is 3.01. (Not 3.0.1. Hercules has a long |
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history of modification levels higher than 9.) The first maintenance release |
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would be 3.01.1. The current development snapshot would be 3.01.a1. |
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The key here is that thereis no connection at all between maintenance and |
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development release numbers. 3.01.c2 would have no connection whatsoever |
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with 3.01.2, except that they're both based on 3.01 - but they may be very, |
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very different. There is no way to relate the two. The maintenance release |
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may be newer, or it may be older, but there's no way to tell, and the |
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question has no meaning anyway. |
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