Re: Reminder: impending GNOME 1.4 RC1 deadline

[Joel Becker <jlbec evilplan org>]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:12:21AM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:
> 
> I would strongly prefer the packages be numbered 1.4.0 if you are
> using that scheme.

	The only real problem here is that the minute a pacakge
versioned 1.4.0 appears on the ftp site, news will be reported that
GNOME 1.4 is out.  We can claim "Hey, those are preview pacakges!!!" all
we want, but they will be considered full release by simple virtue of
the version number.
	People will not say "Hey, they sure fixed those bugs before the
*real* release, at 1.4.2."  They will say "Man, that 1.4.0 release was
*soo* buggy.  They still can't do a quality release."

Joel

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