Re: Reminder: impending GNOME 1.4 RC1 deadline

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 11 Mar 2001 02:05:22 -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > So there's a real problem at the heart of this that inspires "pre1",
> > which is that you want to distinguish a beta/test release from an
> > Officially Sanctioned Release That Experienced QA.
> > 
> > So a versioning scheme such as 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.3 does not do that.
> > If 1.2.1 is a test and 1.2.3 is a real release there's no way to know.
> > 
> > We should probably have an official scheme for this, maybe 1.2.1.1 or
> > something ;-)
> > 
> 
> What if the versions had been 1.2.8post1 instead of 1.2.9pre1?
> 
that's why ONLY numbers should be used, as Ian said. So, 1.2.1.1 is supposed to

be an older version than 1.2.2, right?

cheers


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