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

[Markus Wanner]

On 11/24/2010 08:01 AM, Richard Levitte wrote:
> Oh, so you're interpreting 0.99dev as "0.99 plus development", while I
> interpret it as "development of 0.99" (OpenSSL uses the latter
> interpretation for that kind of notation).  As a matter of fact, I
> believe that's what we've done in monotone as well, consider the main
> branch currently has the version "1.0dev" ;-)
> 
> That kind of confusion alone tells me we should probably avoid having
> that kind of notation...

Agreed.

The most common thing these days seem to be 'release candidates', i.e.
1.0-rc6. Or maybe alphas and betas. (All of these are interpreted as
"development of" and considered to be older than the plain version.)

Regards

Markus Wanner