On 11 August 2011 05:25, Michael Hope michael.hope@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