Re: Release rules Was: Re: [Monotone-devel] conflicts store vs show_conflicts

[Ludovic Brenta]

Martin Dvorak wrote:

> I never was fan of the x.99.x/x.9x/etc. version numbering for betas of

> new major versions. I've been thinking about stable/development version

> numbering recently (and also in the past) and I think it's better to

> call such versions as 1.1-alpha5, 1.1-beta3, 2.0-rc2. This means using

> the target major version but appending a suffix that marks it's not the

> final release.

> 

> What do you think? Are there any issues with this scheme for users

> and/or automatic tools, such as package managers in Linux?



Debian supports this using a tilde to separate the "target major version"

and the "suffix", e.g. 1.1~alpha5, 1.1~beta3, 2.0~rc2. I don't know about

other distros.



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Ludovic Brenta.