Re: [Madwifi-devel] Re: Madwifi version: ATH_PCI_VERSION or ATH_HAL_VERSION?

[Michael R. <ma...@no...>]

Hi.

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 15:00 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> I'd prefer to avoid date based versioning (it's ok as a substring in
> release tag in package-speech language).
> 
> Should I use ATH_HAL_VERSION instead? 

None of the component's version strings should be used for package
versions. On the other hand there is no "release version" (we don't even
have an official release yet).

The first release that will be available sooner or later will be v0.9.0,
so maybe it would work for you to use 0.8.9 or something like that,
along with the revision of the snapshot that is used as basis for your
package.

As a general note that applies to packagers for all distributions:

No matter what solution you find, please take care to instruct users of
a madwifi-ng package that the ng-code is still experimental. Things
might be broken, and although it works nice in many cases the ng stuff
can't be regarded as being stable yet.

In addition, be aware that packaging ng means you will have to invest
some time into investigating which revisions are stable enough to be
considered for packaging (either by following the reports in the mailing
lists or tickets, or by trying it yourself). If you don't want to spend
that time (or can't afford it) you should refrain from packaging ng at
this time and provide madwifi-old packages only.

Hth.

Bye, Mike