Re: Why not make Linux source modular?
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@freya.yggdrasil.com)
28 Feb 1996 01:00:54 GMT
Followup to: <199602271906.OAA17839@po_box.cig.mot.com>
By author: David A Willmore <willmore@cig.mot.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> To further Linus's comments, it would be nice if code that is
> seperate from ther kernel, but which interfaces with the kernel
> would keep its version numbering scheme parallel with the kernel.
> The module code does this, but several other things do not. There
> is the problem of indicating the independant version status of the
> code. For example, I write a new block driver which works with
> 1.3.69. What do I call it? 1.3.69 would imply that it was fairly
> stable. How about 0.1.3.59 or 0.1-1.3.59 or some such?
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Call it 1.3.69alpha1 or 1.3.69beta1 depending on how (un)stable you fee=
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it is.
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