Version handling in binutils

Christian Jönsson c.christian.joensson@telia.com
Sun Mar 3 03:23:00 GMT 2002


I still am a little bit confused of how we handle versions on
binutils.

I have previosly, and still does, advocated that we could use someting
like this for a version string:

"2.13 20020303 (experimental)"

as an example for today's main branch

"2.12 20020303 (prerelease)"

as an example for today's 2.12 branch

once 2.12 is released, I'd suggest

"2.12"

for its release and then in the 2.12 branch

"2.12.1 20020303 (prerelease)"


but I also see that version strings are a little awkward to start mess
around with. One thing, though, it sure would be great to have these
ones and to use them when running the tests. It sure is great to see
more than just a date when it comes to versions... like the branch for
example.

Any comments?

Cheers,

/ChJ



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