[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] version: switch to year/month version numbers

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 04:11:40PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2016-02-10 14:33, John McNamara:
> >  /**
> >   * Major version number i.e. the x in x.y.z
> >   */
> > -#define RTE_VER_MAJOR 2
> > +#define RTE_VER_MAJOR 16
> >  
> >  /**
> >   * Minor version number i.e. the y in x.y.z
> >   */
> > -#define RTE_VER_MINOR 3
> > +#define RTE_VER_MINOR 4
> >
> 
> I liked the idea of Bruce of renaming these constants to
> *_YEAR and *_MONTH.
> I also think RTE_VER_PATCH_LEVEL should be RTE_VER_MINOR.
> And maybe that RTE_VER_PATCH_RELEASE should be RTE_VER_RELEASE.
> 
> It shouldn't hurt applications as they must use RTE_VERSION
> and rte_version().
> 
> Opinions?

Well, I always tend to like Bruce's ideas too, so +1 from me :-)

/Bruce