[macros PATCH] Handle patch level version checking (x.y.z) in XORG_MACROS_VERSION
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Thu Feb 5 13:17:56 PST 2009
Dan Nicholson wrote:
> Just checking the major and minor version of xorg-macros is not enough
> granularity. Awk is used to split out the first three sections of the
> version number. If the field is not available, 0 is substituted.
When I wrote it, the intent was that the minor version would be bumped on adding
new macros, and micro versions would reflect bug fixes, so most packages
wouldn't care about the micro versions. I assume you want the micro version
to force using versions with bug fixes like those in 1.2.1, right?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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