On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:32:11 -0500 Will Woods wwoods@redhat.com wrote:
There are things (Install test tools and PreUpgrade f'rinstance) that might want to do version comparisons, such as:
# Support for stage2=XXX was added in F9Beta if dist.version >= 8.92: ...
I suppose we could also do that by comparing the timestamps (and keeping a map of release -> timestamp).. but I'm pretty sure there are other tools that look at the release number to make various decisions about how to deal with the system.
Hrm... s'pose that's a valid use. So long as there is a valid reason for munging the release number each time I'm ok with doing it. I just hate doing things for the sake of doing things because that's just been done since before I got here and we can't change anything (: