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Date:	Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:08:46 -0400
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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
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In-reply-to:	<20000803120930.7207.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com> (message from
	Earnie Boyd on Thu, 3 Aug 2000 05:09:30 -0700 (PDT))
Subject:	Re: setup versioning
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> IMO, that won't work well.  What happens if the ChangeLog is updated
> more than once between distributions?

As long as the numbers are monotonically increasing, it's not as
important if they're sequential.

> Perhaps strings similar to what's in the cygwin1.dll would be
> helpful.  Then one could grep for %%% in the executable for build
> information.

Good idea.

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