On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:55:37AM -0400, Rob Stewart wrote:
From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Edward Diener <eddielee@tropicsoft.com> writes:
Okay, I understand what you're driving at. I'm not sure if going down this road is worth the trouble, but if it is, I'd rather see a standard system for referring to versions numerically. So, for example:
Version Value ------- ----- 6.0 060000 6.0sp5 060005 7.0 070000 7.1 070100 5.3.4 050304 3.4.3 030403 2.95.3 029503
You probably need to allow another digit for each field. 95 is awfully close to rolling over to three digits.
I think that's why it was chosen, and it's VERY unlikely there'll be any more GCC 2.x releases. RedHat shipped a modified GCC with version number 2.96, but I'll bet bread there won't be a 2.100 So if GCC 2.95 is the only version number close to 3 digits, I don't think you need to worry about running out of digits. jon