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* RE: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
@ 2004-08-05 13:49 jyates
  2004-08-05 15:41 ` Andrew Cagney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: jyates @ 2004-08-05 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: schwab; +Cc: gdb

Wow!  Learn something new everyday!

Neither ls --help nor man ls provide a much of a clue
as to what a version sort is.  Listed among items with
more obvious sorting semantics I simply ignored -v.
info ls provided the full story.  ls -v definitely
addresses my objection.

/john


-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:schwab@suse.de]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 6:09 AM
To: John Yates
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50


<jyates@netezza.com> writes:

> That would be fine if commonplace sorts obeyed that logic.
> The most common sort in my world is /bin/ls which fails to
> conform.

GNU ls: --sort=version (aka -v)

Andreas.

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* RE: dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
@ 2004-08-04 23:16 jyates
  2004-08-05 10:08 ` Andreas Schwab
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: jyates @ 2004-08-04 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb

Andrew Cagney wrote:

...

> cagney@nettle$ sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n x

...

> I'm not sure I understand the problem, dot is a field separator rather 
> than decimal place.

That would be fine if commonplace sorts obeyed that logic.
The most common sort in my world is /bin/ls which fails to
conform.  Any scheme is which lexical sorting produced a
correct result would be preferable.

/john

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* dot five-o series versions - GDB 6.2.50
@ 2004-08-04 16:30 Andrew Cagney
  2004-08-04 16:36 ` Dave Korn
  2004-08-04 17:05 ` Theodore A. Roth
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Cagney @ 2004-08-04 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb

Hello,

Ref: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/translation/HTML/maintainers.html

The translators are looking for a versioning schema that makes it easy 
to undersand how two versions relate to each other.  Unfortunatly, GDB's 
current versioning doesn't do this.  Without knowing the policy, it's 
hard to know whats going on with:

	2004-09-03
	6.2_2004-09_03

consequently, I'd like to propose that things be changed to the following:

M.N.5x:
Indicate the mainline.  It's half way between releases -> .50.
Ex 6.2.50, 6.2.50_2004-09-03

M.N.9x:
Indicate pre release versions drawn from the branch.

M.N / M.N.O:
The release.

This leads to the sequence:

6.2.50_2004-09-03
6.2.50_2004-09-04
...
     <branch> -----------> <mainline>
6.2.90_2004-10-05     6.3.50_2004-10-05
6.2.91                6.3.50_2004-10-06
...                   ...
6.2.91_2004-10-10     6.3.50_2004-10-10
...                   ...
6.3 <release>         6.3.50_2004-10-11
...                   ...
6.3_2004-10-12        6.3.50_2004-10-12
...                   ...
6.3.1 <release>       6.3.50_2004-10-13
...                   ...
<close>               ...
                       ...
                            <branch> ----------> <mainline>
                       6.2.90_2004-10-05     6.3.50_2004-10-05
                       6.2.91                6.3.50_2004-10-06
                       ...                   ...
                       6.2.91_2004-10-10     6.3.50_2004-10-10
                       ...                   ...
                       6.3 <release>         6.3.50_2004-10-11
                       ...                   ...
                       6.3_2004-10-12        6.3.50_2004-10-12
                       ...                   ...
                       6.3.1 <release>       6.3.50_2004-10-13
                       ...                   ...
                       <close>               ...
                                             ...

comment!

Andrew

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