Re: From 2.4 to 2.6 to 2.7?

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jul 15 2008 - 11:20:28 EST




On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Or you could just do it like emacs or Solaris and simply use a single number.

No, that would be horrible. The only point of changign the numbering would
be to make the numbers smaller. Not fewer. I don't like "26" much as a
version number, I'd like "131" even less.

So I'd much rather have something like "2.9.1" than "27", just because
it's a hierarchy of simpler numbers.

Linus
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