Once upon a time, Takashi wrote : > but, unfortuantely, we are in the stage of rc - that is, basically, > each release could be the final one (what an ironical situation...) > so, the test for the rc makes no sense from its definition.
Ironical indeed since this has been lasting for some time now :-/ I don't mean to criticize your good work on ALSA or anything else, but "release candidates" represent for me something that all developers agree as what should already be the actual release, but that they're releasing to the public as a "candidate" just to iron out bugs they could have missed. This is not what the latest 0.9.0rc releases seem to me, as ALSA is still evolving much. I think that these release candidates should have been versioned 0.8.90, 0.8.91 etc. as this is trivial for string comparison. For developers and some users, all the strings "rc", "pl", "alpha", "beta" seem obvious, but for regular users they're not, nor are they for any type of automated version comparaison. > anyway, i myself would love to release 0.9.0 final once if most of > obvious bugs on rc5 are fixed. but, it's the decision by Jaroslav. When that will happen, what next? Will be have 1.0alphaX, then 1.0betaX, then 1.0rcX... until 1.0? That is what I dislike, as it's really not harder to use 0.9.X instead, as long as you mention that it's the development branch that will lead to 1.0 and that the current suggested release is 0.9.0. I'm just suggesting something that I think would make life easier for everyone, and trying to argument my opinion, not trying to force you into deciding something you've probably already thought about. I think I'm just mostly wondering. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) running Linux kernel 2.4.18-10acpi Load : 0.02 0.21 0.27 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
