[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 01/26] lib: Separate versioning to its own module.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:42:13AM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> 
> > On Jul 29, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:55:53PM -0700, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
> >> Separate rule versioning to lib/versions.h to make it easier to use
> >> versioning for other data types.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jarno at ovn.org>
> > 
> > I wish this wasn't called "versions", because that sounds like the
> > version of Open vSwitch, but I don't have a really good name.
> > 
> 
> I struggled with this myself. We could call it "table_versions" but the we might one day use it also for port configuration, for example.
> 
> Other possibility would be to call these "configuration versions" "generations" - I believe this term is used elsewhere with similar meaning.

Hmm.  None of those are really great.

Let's just leave it for now.