[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 and release numbering

Ron Yorston

rmy at tigress.co.uk
Sat Jun 21 10:00:01 UTC 2014


Johnny Hughes wrote:
>What better way to communicate that they are not standalone but are all
>only part of the MAJOR release and a POINT IN TIME part of that major
>release than to name them "<MAJOR RELEASE>.<POINT IN TIME>" ?

The current scheme represents <POINT IN TIME> as an integer that starts
from zero and increments with each minor release.

I remain unconvinced that a YYMM representation of <POINT IN TIME> is
any better.

Ron



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