Re: GOP2-2b - Stable 2.16.x releases (dictator) (probable decision)

[David Kastrup]

John Mandereau <address@hidden> writes:

> Il giorno mer, 01/08/2012 alle 15.52 +0100, Graham Percival ha scritto:
>> Regardless of the question of having a tuple of four values, it
>> would be nice to support build numbers, i.e. 2.15.43-2:
>> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=977
>> 
>> This definitely requires work in both lilypond git and GUB git.
>
> I'm confident we don't want to add support for tuples of four values or
> release tags in convert-ly, but website generation and docs generation
> (Texinfo macros and HTML footers) need work.  Do you prefer that I spend
> effort on building GUB for the coming week or rather make patches on
> lilypond.git only?

My personal take on this is that I/we can manage to get along with the
existing 3-digit system at the current point of time.  So it is not
time-critical to get this into more versatile shape as far as I am
concerned, and experimenting on this is expensive regarding the time for
feedback.

-- 
David Kastrup