[Dovecot] Version numbering

[John Peacock]

Frank Cusack wrote:
> On March 28, 2007 4:35:50 PM -0400 John Peacock <jpeacock at rowman.com> 
> wrote:
>> What this model does is to make many more small releases (no more RC129),
>> each with a stable feature set.
> 
> I don't see how that's different than a/b/rc numbering.  You can still
> cut as many releases as you like.
> 
> 1.1.0
>  1.2.0b1
>  1.2.0b2
>  1.2.0rc1
> 1.1.1
>  1.2.0rc2
>  1.2.0rc3
> 1.2.0

I can handle that too:  version::AlphaBeta ;-)

http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-AlphaBeta-0.06/lib/version/AlphaBeta.pm

But the argument that numeric only works much better for packagers is 
very powerful, IMNSHO...

John

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