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

[Tero Koskinen]

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:36:30 +0100 Martin Dvorak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?

If we assume that we will release the final versions shortly after
-alpha, -beta, or -rc releases, distributions should not need to care
about extra suffix. They can simply package the official 1.1, 1.2.1,
etc. versions.

> bye,
> Martin


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