It's Official: Mesa 13.1 is Now Mesa 17.0

[phoronix]

Phoronix: It's Official: Mesa 13.1 is Now Mesa 17.0

There was talk last year of Mesa moving to a date-based version scheme and that's now official with Mesa in Git being 17.0-devel rather than 13.1-devel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-17.0-In-Git

[wdb974]

At first, I was like: "Aw, crap, it's gonna be one of those weird ass decisions again."

Then, I read the article, and I concluded: that actually sounds logical. Long live Mesa!

[schmidtbag]

I wish everything would move to a date-based version scheme. It makes things easier for everyone. If something gets daily updates, just do it based YYMMDD. If something gets updated multiple times a day, just start counting with letters.

I think the Linux kernel should do this too. The numbering scheme is already completely arbitrary at this point anyway; it pretty much just changes whenever Linus feels like it.

[cj.wijtmans]

I wish everything would move to a date-based version scheme. It makes things easier for everyone. If something gets daily updates, just do it based YYMMDD. If something gets updated multiple times a day, just start counting with letters.

I think the Linux kernel should do this too. The numbering scheme is already completely arbitrary at this point anyway; it pretty much just changes whenever Linus feels like it.

I agree so much with this. But there is a problem with this that when an old release gets some fixor backport patch it gets confusing.

[ldo17]

I like prime numbers: 13, 17, 19, 23 ...

[schmidtbag]

I agree so much with this. But there is a problem with this that when an old release gets some fixor backport patch it gets confusing.

Aaahhhh.... I wasn't thinking about that.... Good point.

[mibo]

And why is the first release 2017 not 17.1?

[Kemosabe]

And why is the first release 2017 not 17.1?

Why is it not 17.2 since it'll be released in February?

[lumks]

I think the Linux kernel should do this too.

"Linux twenty-seventeen-dot-one" sounds awesome, a little like microsoft marketing, but awesome.

[shmerl]

A pity it won't end up in Debian soon because of the freeze. I hope at least it will be uploaded to experimental.