On Thursday 22 December 2005 18:46, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it make more sense for the maintenance release to be 1.0.1?
> > Seconded. letters in versions are bad. With my MacOS background, for me,
> > "b" means "beta" :)
> FWIW, thirded. The kernel used to use letters too, and it's cute, but just
> using multiple levels of release numbers is much more common.
Also sucks because letters after numbers a read as "units".
Just compare 5h, 3kg, 20cm, 9in, 1.3h
Also putting letters after version numbers usally gives me
a feeling that the author is not sure about what he does.
But this is just me, I guess
I hope util-linux is going to learn all that one day :-)
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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