Re: Reminder: impending GNOME 1.4 RC1 deadline

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

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?

 - Maciej