Re: [ePiX-devel] Re: [ePiX-users] Stable release (Version 1.2.0)

[Andrew D. Hwang]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Jay Belanger wrote:

> Julian Gilbey <address@hidden> writes:
> ...
> > Any chance of calling it "1.2.0.2" instead; "-2" is used by many
> > distros to indicate their own patch-level of the package?  (Debian can
> > happily handle it, but it looks a little weird.)
>
> I suppose it's too late for that now, but I would also vote for some
> such change in the future.  Gentoo uses "-2" to indicate its
> own patch level, but there is some ebuild trickery it can use to get
> around having "-2" in the package name.  I'm using Fedora now, and it
> didn't like the "-2" in the package name, either.
Bother; live and learn. :) I'll apply a few infinitesimal tweaks tomorrow, 
upload 1.2.1, and henceforth stick to version numbers of the form 1.2.n.

Andy

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