Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] version names

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 19:07, Christophe de Vienne wrote:
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> Le Mardi 5 Novembre 2002 18:57, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:57, Christophe de Vienne wrote:
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> > > Le Mardi 5 Novembre 2002 18:39, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> > > > What is the purpose of this pre1/pre2 stuff? If you want to release new
> > > > versions, why not just increase the version number? As long as you are
> > > > making no promises of API stability or feature-completeness for certain
> > > > numbered versions then the numbers have no meaning.
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> > > You're right, it's a bit messy. I'll try to do this more properly.
> > > In fact in my mind the pre versions are not obviously completely tested
> > > and stable and the final one completely stable and 'trustable'.
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> > Testers=downloaders=users. You can't make any other claims about
> > quality.
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> That's why I wanted to make a pre-release : to be tested by the users, and be 
> confident when doing a release.

But a pre-release is a release. So you're just doing a release before a
release. It's simpler to call them releases, because that's what they
are.

More importantly, it's easier for configure checks to check for the
correct-or-greater versions if you just use a normal numbered version.

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