release numbers (was: [wplug] CMU installfest this Friday 7th Feb)

[Brian Medley]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:44:51PM -0500, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> I don't see how this relates to a distribution release number. 
> Incrementing the major number is a pure marketing decision and (at 
> least in this case, RH7.3 -> RH8.0) doesn't have anything *really* that 
> new, compared to the previous version.

This may have changed for 7.3 -> 8.0, though...

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6860&cid=892496

Each time the version number of glibc is increased by 0.0.1, Red Hat grabs
the new version and uses it to bounce up its version number by 1.0

    Entirely untrue.

    We increase the major version number when there are changes that will
    prevent stuff compiled on the new version to run on the old version
    without being recompiled.

    For 7.0, that's caused by the change of compilers (C++ binary
    incompatibility) and glibc (2.2, not 2.1.8).
    
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