test suit versioning (was Re: LSB-FHS2.2beta3 update)
Christopher, this looks perfectly reasonable for me
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 08:34:49AM +1000, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> On the topic of versioning of filenames, thinking forward a bit I
> think we'll be interested in two distinct types of versions:
>
> - Version of the specification against which the test suite is
> designed/tuned
> - Version of the test suite itself as it changes
>
> So to avoid confusion in the future I think we should be creating a
> version number for each test suite based on these two versions.
>
> I propose we start numbering the test suites with something like the
> following scheme:
>
> lsb-<test_suite_name>-A.B.X.Y.tar.gz
>
> (with a betaNum after the Y if necessary for prereleases) where
>
> A.B refers to the specification version (currently it has been
> released as 1.0.0 but I'm assuming that the last digit is only used to
> signify editorial alterations?)
>
> X refers to the major version of the test framework (ie the
> tet/vsxgen tarball) needed to install/run the test suite. For
> test suites which don't need the framework just use 0 here.
>
> Y refers to the version of the test suite itself
>
> Any objections/suggestions?
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris.
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