VM version naming (was Re: [Vm-dev] Pi vm builds need a priority checker applet)

Fabio Niephaus lists at fniephaus.com
Thu Aug 18 23:07:35 UTC 2016


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:59 AM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> > On 18-08-2016, at 3:52 PM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:06 AM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, something I spotted when looking at
> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/releases#linux as you
> suggested - the vm version numbering seems to be the old style from when we
> used the svn source tree. Unless I misunderstood we now use the github date
> string versioning (my latest vm from this afternoon is 5.0-201608171728 for
> example).
> >
> > Do you mean it's weird that the version number still starts with "5.0-“?
>
> No, it’s the r3732 type numbering that concerns me. When one builds a new
> vm it will be, for example, 5.0-201608171728 with the date/time making the
> version data and an svn release number. Because we’re not using svn
> anymore...
>

The new vms should not contain svn release numbers anymore. Eliot recently
[1] got rid of the rest I think.
Or are you saying that we should update the linked release notes?

[1]
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commit/6c6ab27df7ac11b7cd593bd707bd5a0eec6ae5d5



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