[rfk-dev] bugs

David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
Sun Oct 28 14:34:55 PDT 2012


On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Peter A. H. Peterson <pedro at tastytronic.net>:
>> What do people think about having a release version number -- the
>> X.YYYY number -- which is relevant for releases, packages, etc., but
>> at runtime the version number in the status area displays a dynamic
>> count of the NKIs loaded at startup?
>>
>> That way, the version number from the perspective of the build tools
>> is separate from the more whimsical tertiary NKI count.
>
> I'd be opposed to this change.

Somewhat sideways from this is the seven digits in the minor portion of 
the version number.  Could we stick with two or three?


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