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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Ada compiler: split complete, naming suggestions for gnat-gpl?
From:       Paul de Vrieze <pauldv () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2006-01-24 20:32:04
Message-ID: 200601242132.04713.pauldv () gentoo ! org
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On Sunday 15 January 2006 19:54, George Shapovalov wrote:
> Ok, I got the answer from upstream and, as I expected, 2005 refers to the
> language specification and is not a release version. Upstream in fact is
> undecided at this point on what naming/versioning scheme it is going to
> use, so we need to come up with something.. Then 3.4.5.1 seems as good to
> me as 2005, probably even better (than the latter) since it is more
> descriptive (and is in fact easier to follow technically).

Alternatively, if you use something low like 0.0_pre20050124, the upgrade path 
to whatever version name is chosen is easy and uncumbersome. Of course don't 
do this if it's likely to be years for a proper version to be chosen.

Paul

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