Use of newest version number such as 10.0 instead of current

[George Kontostanos]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>
>> Dear all ,
>>
>> Instead of using Current and then renaming everything  for a new version
>> number ,
>> is it not possible to use the newest version number in place of Current
>> when it is branched .
>>
>> Such a change will prevent unnecessary renaming problems .
>>
>>
>> For everyone , it i very easy to understand that 10.0 is the latest ,
>> therefore the current one .
>>
>> The current may be used as a symbolic link to the newest version number ,
>> such as used by Debian .
>>
>>
>> For example , for FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 , the ports directory name was
>>
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-current/Latest/
>>
>>
>> which is NOT available now , and
>>
>>
>> pkg_add -r *
>>
>> is giving error about directory not found .
>>
>>
>> This is preventing testing and / or using efforts .
>>
>>
>> I know , it is possible to rename local link names , but
>> everyone is not so much knowledgeable .
>
> I'm not sure I understand your proposal.
> In a month (er, two.  well, maybe three) when 9.0 is released, do you
> propose that the svn HEAD be called:
> (a) 10.0
> (b) 9-CURRENT
> (c) CURRENT
> (d) something else
>
> I do not realy care for either (a) or (b), since (a) would imply that the
> version is not changing, even as incompatible KBI/ABI changes are made.
> Likewise for (b), once the KBI/ABI changes, HEAD is decidedly no longer a
> form of '9'.
>
> -Ben Kaduk
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I think he suggests a) 10

BTW I follow both stable and current lists. I have noticed that people
still ask questions in current regarding 9-RC(*) problems.
Maybe if it was clear that current is now 10 this would not happen.

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