On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:03:44 +0000 (UTC) (09/13/03 07:03:44)
, John Boucher <John_member@pathlink.com> wrote:

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>
> OpenVMS' logicals are perhaps the most powerful feature of the OS and yet no
> other OS uses them? They're way better than logical link files.
>
> I'll also add that OpenVMS has the ability to have multiple names for a
> directory or file (which is dangerous and seldom used).
>

And automatic file versioning!


-- 
Derek

"Antti Sykäri" <jsykari@gamma.hut.fi> ha scritto nel messaggio news:slrnbm8n8o.rsn.jsykari@pulu.hut.fi...
> More things to think about... How do you compare version numbers, for example? There are plenty of different version number schemes, starting from simple x.y.z where x, y and z are numbers, to something like 1.0445j and 2.0-pre4. And you might have branches that are indicated in the version number (Linux kernel has branched versions such as 2.4.21-pre5-ac3, but that kind of versioning might be out of scale here)

Clearly (though not so clearly from my previous post) automatic version checking would imply a standard and well-defined versioning scheme to which all libraries should adhere. This is probably going to be an all too good topic for holy wars. I myself have been using different versioning schemes for different projects and all of them made sense in their own context.

Just to start with something, how about the classic <version>.<subversion>.<release>?

Ric