Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

[Walter Bender]

This discussion reminds me of a favorite puzzle from Douglas Hofstadter

0, 1, 2, 3, 720!, ...

That is a numbering scheme with lots of headroom.

I agree that OLPC is the wrong name. There are reports that the
software is now running, for example, on a Classmate PC. So any direct
tie to OLPC is not necessarily appropriate. Maybe Sugar? something
else? But there is not much simpler than 1,2,3...

-walter


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
> walter wrote:
>   >
>   > I'm in favor of Dennis's suggestion. OLPC-1; OLPC-2, ... It is simple
>   > and, I argue, unambiguous. The hardware is XO-1, XO-2...
>
>  as perhaps more of an outsider here, i'd say that this is not
>  "unambiguous".  people with the laptops regularly refer to them
>  as "my OLPC" -- perhaps encouraged by the unfortunate "PC" in the
>  acronym.
>
>  as for numbers:  sequential is good, but starting higher than 1 might
>  give room for adding structure later if necessary.  (e.g. the 200 series
>  of releases might be a break from the 100 series.)
>
>  paul
>  =---------------------
>   paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's  degrees)
>
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