Re: Reminder: impending GNOME 1.4 RC1 deadline

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Joel Becker <jlbec evilplan org> writes:
> 
> 	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."
> 

Just put the packages in a directory with a name like "prerelease" (if
they aren't already, they probably are).

Havoc