Re: GNOME Desktop Version String

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 21:59, James Henstridge wrote:
> >So, with that and vendor issues in mind, how about the following details:
> >
> >Major number ("2")
> >Minor number ("0")
> >Micro number ("0")
> >Vendor name ("GARNOME")
> >Vendor random string ("Preview Three - 0.7.5")
> >
> >What else will people want to see described herein?
> >
> As someone else suggested, a date string for the release.  Preferably in 
> a machine parsable format, so when people using GNOME 2.0.0 in 2020 find 
> a bug, bug-buddy can suggest that they check if a newer release of gnome 
> is available that fixes their bug ...

And I know this is going to sound horrible/cliched/whatever but it would
be nice to have this in XML so that we can add extra fields and not
break older tools. 

Outside of that, this sounds like a fairly complete list to me.
Luis