On Wednesday 28 March 2007 02:46, Timo Sirainen wrote:
After v1.0 is released, I can finally get back to sane version numbers. But any comments on which one is better:
a) Postfix-style: "1.1.UNSTABLE.YYYYMMDD" -> 1.1.0 (stable)
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.
Also as a packager, I must remark on the ambiguity of (a). Normally letters come after numbers in order. Luckily in Debian, it can be transformed into "1.1~UNSTABLE.YYYYMMDD", where "~" is ranked lower than even the empty string.
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