> -----Original Message-----
> From: Riggs, Rob [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Huston [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:03 PM
> > To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: Release numbering suggestion
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Carl Trieloff [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > One late suggestion to the thread. after release update 
> the trunk to 
> > > 0.7.
> >
> > Right, but my point is that this week's 0.7 is not the same as next 
> > week's 0.7. So you still can't really identify what someone 
> is working 
> > with just by saying 0.7, so what are we really buying with this 
> > scheme?
> 
> Not much for the developers.  Lots for us users.  Us users 
> can start making RPM packages of development versions and 
> know immediately whether a dev or stable version is 
> installed.  Right now that is not possible.
> 
> Going forward, you will be working on version 0.7.  I create 
> a number of qpid 0.7 RPMs as development progresses to test 
> various features.  0.7 is released.  Two months later I check 
> the packages that are installed on my system. RPM tells me 
> qpid 0.7 is installed.  Is it development or a released version?

Ok, I see. Thanks. How do you manage multiple variations on 0.7? Is that
an issue?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aidan Skinner [mailto:[email protected]] 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Steve Huston 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Right, but my point is that this week's 0.7 is not the same as next 
> > week's 0.7. So you still can't really identify what someone 
> is working 
> > with just by saying 0.7, so what are we really buying with this 
> > scheme?
> 
> We could stick the svn rev as the micro version for 
> development builds.
> 
> 0.7.8234324 is a bit ugly but gets the point across.

I agree on both points.
Is that what users want/need?

-Steve


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