Re: Problems with gnits standard and git-version-gen

[Werner LEMBERG]

>     1.00rc0
>
> Personally, when I see a version number like that, I'm never sure
> what it means.  Probably the first rc leading up to 1.00, but maybe
> it is an rc for 1.01 after 1.00.

Well, I have *never* encountered that `1.00rc0' means a release
candidate for 1.01.  Have you?

> And suffixes sort badly in long lists (see, e.g.,
> http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/).  Anyway.  Not trying to change your
> ways, but since you raised the subject, tossing in my gratuitious
> opinion, sorry.

:-)  For `political reasons' I need a `1.00' in the version string.
Otherwise, I would be just happy with 0.99.91 or so.

> [...] he included "support" in automake for the extra gnits checks
> we were thinking about.  That is all.

Well, some tests are quite useful.  It's just the version number
checking that I consider... limited.  Anyways, the problem with
`git-version-gen' are real.  There might be good reasons to have, say

  2.17-foobar

to indicate a special modification of 2.17, and git-version-gen
doesn't like it.


    Werner