[Ecls-list] ECL 0.9l release candidate

[Vadim Konovalov]

在 Sunday 03 August 2008 21:09:20，Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll 写道：
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Vadim Konovalov <vadrer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm very glad to see ECL improving,
> > but is it possible to move to normal versioning system? (of course I am
> > speaking about future releases, not this one)
> > letter versions are  - so  1995... (*)
>
> What do you mean by normal? In my life I have seen almost anything,
> from those that use names instead of numbers, dates instead of
> revision numbers, arbitrary jumps in revision numbers like those by
> Acrobat and others...
>
> Current scheme stays below 1.0 because I do not want to make a 1.0
> until the compiler is fully stable. Then again, all releases are
> binary incompatible among each other, which precludes having three
> numbers systems as other linux libraries.
>
> So what would be your suggestion?

I meant having versions like 0.9.2.15, just like SBCL do, and many other SW 
nowadays, because that's easier for users to eye-catch.

Perl also had such system, but it then came to numbers-only versions.
Here is an excerpt from "perldoc perlhist" to illustrate my point:

                 5.001k        1995-Jun-06
                 5.001l        1995-Jun-06     Stable.
                 5.001m        1995-Jul-02     Very stable.
                 5.001n        1995-Oct-31     Very unstable.
                 5.002beta1    1995-Nov-21
                 5.002b1a      1995-Dec-04
                 5.002b1b      1995-Dec-04
                 5.002b1c      1995-Dec-04
                 5.002b1d      1995-Dec-04
                 5.002b1e      1995-Dec-08
                 5.002b1f      1995-Dec-08
        Tom      5.002b1g      1995-Dec-21     Doc release.
        Andy     5.002b1h      1996-Jan-05
                 5.002b2       1996-Jan-14
        Larry    5.002b3       1996-Feb-02
        Andy     5.002gamma    1996-Feb-11
        Larry    5.002delta    1996-Feb-27
        Larry   5.002          1996-Feb-29     Prototypes.
        Charles  5.002_01      1996-Mar-25
                5.003          1996-Jun-25     Security release.
                 5.003_01      1996-Jul-31
        Nick     5.003_02      1996-Aug-10
        Andy     5.003_03      1996-Aug-28
                 5.003_04      1996-Sep-02




But this is of course up to you to decide...

BR,
Vadim.