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From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: CVSup release identity
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> From: Chad R. Larson <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com>
> >I'll re-suggest an alpha-numeric counter instead of date/time, both for
> >economy (fewer characters) and to avoid debate about time zones and
> >daylight savings.  But I'd add a character that denotes which CVS tag
> 
> I'm against an alpha-numeric counter, as a 2 digit counter only
> produces 1296 combinations.  If you look at the number of CTM updates
> for CURRENT, they are in the 3000, thus we'll have exhausted the
> combination long before we start.

I yield on the format of the counter.  It's more important to get
=something= done than to chatter about it.  But final statement:  When I
first proposed it, the two digit counter would use [A-Z][a-z][0-9]
characters, for which there are over 6700 combinations.

> 
> Scot
> 

	-crl
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