On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:32:03PM -0400, Joe wrote:
I like it! Will it be released with distros, etc?
Yes, that's the plan. Having a version number (any number) helps make life so much easier for distributions, and thus it increases the chances for the utility to spread.
If so, every time it goes up a version we would need to release an update patch correct?
No, not really neccessary. The Linux kernel does this, for each releasy they also release a patch with all changes from the last release to the current, but I don't know a lot of other projects who do that, and I don't think there is much point to it.
One motivation could be size, but flashrom will be a small enough package for that not to matter.
I also don't know of any distributions that are patch based like that and would require it - rather I think most distributions prefer to have each version in a separate tarball.
//Peter