Re: Suggested even/odd convention for the micro version numbers (like cairo)

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 13:08 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
> The problem I see with the proposed scheme is that we can't
> fit step (e) into it, since 2.12.2 is never in SVN.  With our
> current scheme, you can do this:
> 
>   svn checkout $(url)/tags/MY_PROGRAM_2_12_2
>   make distcheck
> 
> and get, in theory, exactly the tarball that's sitting on
> ftp.gnome.org.  If 2.12.2 is never in SVN, that's not going
> to be possible.

The cairo repository shows that also the even release version is
committed and this commit is then tagged.

Jürg