On 11 August 2011 05:25, Michael Hope <michael.h...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi there.  This is a heads-up that the name of the Toolchain group
> releases will change slightly with next weeks release.  We're dropping
> the respin suffix (the -0) to line up with the new whole of Linaro
> naming convention.

So I still don't really understand what the rationale for this
change is. It's got some obvious disadvantages, in that it breaks
compatibility with the previous releases, and means that respins are
a different name format from initial releases (which is a good way
to ensure that they're not handled properly by peoples' scripts).
And as Andrew pointed out it means that filenames for an initial
and -1 release lexically sort in the wrong order.
If we want consistency across Linaro surely the right way to achieve
that would be for the people who started doing monthly releases after
toolchain to follow the pattern toolchain adopted...

>  qemu-linaro-0.15-2011.xx-0.tar.bz2

Actually qemu-linaro-0.15.50-2011.xx-0.tar.gz
(the .50 is upstream's convention for "based off qemu git trunk
somewhere after 0.15 branched, not an actual qemu release" --
qemu-linaro will continue to track trunk even after upstream's
recent 0.15 release.)

-- PMM

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