At Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:54:46 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote: > > 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. no, as you can see in the 0.5.x series, the sub-version number will be (hopefully) increased at each release once after 0.9.0 is out. again, the current sitatuion is excpetional.
my understanding of rc-version is exactly what you suggested -- it's nothing but the test-release tarball before the official tarball. (please don't take the example of 0.9.0rcX here. i mean, ideally.) so, in this matter, 1.0-rcX _should_ come later on, but they must not survive long like 0.9.0rcX, and they are not for normal (end-)users. the people who don't understand what the suffix means should use the version only with numbers. the question is "beta" version. here i'm not sure whether the beta suffix is better or not. but "rc" version should be no problem if it's used properly. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- 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
