From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:12:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.0.0b quickfix
Message-ID: <200512231712.40621.ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512220945450.4827@g5.osdl.org>

On Thursday 22 December 2005 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it make more sense for the maintenance release to be 1.0.1?
> > Seconded. letters in versions are bad. With my MacOS background, for me,
> > "b" means "beta" :)
> FWIW, thirded. The kernel used to use letters too, and it's cute, but just 
> using multiple levels of release numbers is much more common.

Also sucks because letters after numbers a read as "units".

Just compare 5h, 3kg, 20cm, 9in, 1.3h

Also putting letters after version numbers usally gives me
a feeling that the author is not sure about what he does.
But this is just me, I guess

I hope util-linux is going to learn all that one day :-)


Regards

Ingo Oeser