Re: point release versioning [was Re: dedication]

[Philip Charles]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Ben Collins wrote:

> >  
> > IIRC, the second release of 2.1 was called 2.1r2 to avoid the confusion I
> > am in the process of creating.  We may mean the "r" to mean "revision",
> > but many people would interpret it as "release" and so would see 2.2 as
> > being identical with 2.2r1.
> > 
> 
> But still, if we are going to make that assumption, then we should call
> this one 2.2r1, and not skip the nomenclature. It's confusing.

Agree about it being confusing.  If we want to keep "r" meaning
"revision", what about calling this one 2.2r0?

Phil.

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