Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:35:12PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> Why do GCC releases and development lines have version numbers?  Or
> Mozilla, or the linux kernel, or bash, or tla, or (etc.)?   It
> reflects how software is developed and deployed.

This is false, or at least misleading. It reflects how _some_ software
is developed and deployed.

A common counterexample would be config.sub and config.guess.

A slightly more topical one might be the branches in which I store
debian packaging (which does have a version number, but that version
number is not related to its development at all - it's related to the
development of the corresponding _upstream_ code).

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