[Dovecot] Version numbering

[John Peacock]

Aredridel wrote:
>> b) Odd-even numbering: 1.1.x (unstable) -> 1.2.0 (stable)
>>
>> With a) style the releases could be done by simply copying a nightly
>> snapshot to releases/ directory and announcing the changes since the
>> last release. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
> 
> For the sake of packagers, stick with numbers, always incrementing.
> Makes our lives a ton easier.

As the resident Perl version[1] expert, I concur that numbers and only numbers
are the way to go...

John

1) http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-0.71/lib/version.pod

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