Re: The naming wars continue...

[alan]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> Hey guys, calm down, I meant "naming wars" in a silly kind of way, not the 
> nasty kind.
> 
> The fact is, Linux naming has always sucked. Well, at least the versioning 
> I've used. Others tend to be more organized. Me, I'm the "artistic" type, 
> so I sometimes try to do something new, and invariably stupid. 
> 
> The best suggestion so far has been to _just_ use another number, which
> makes sense considering my dislike for both -rc and -pre.
> 
> However, for some reason four numbers just looks visually too obnoxious to
> me, so as I don't care that much, I'll just use "-rc", and we can all
> agree that it stands for "Ridiculous Count" rather than "Release
> Candidate".
> 
> More importantly, maybe we could all realize that it isn't actually that 
> big of an issue ;)

Besides...  -pre and -rc additions do not sort correctly unless your sort 
routine has special cases to take care of it.


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