On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:58:20PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > OK, I do not agree with this. in my opinion, a release number is only > "burned in stone" once the file is announced, uploaded to CPAN, etc. > I'd prefer to avoid "burning" too early, as it makes for less flexibility.
+1
> What if a bug is found in those prerelease tarballs? We move onto
> 3.0.(x+1) without issuing 3.0.x, immediately? That's (a) messy, (b) ugly,
> (c) will cause confusion among users and packagers, and (d) is
> unprecedented either in *this project*, or others.
It's not unprecedented, I've seen it done before even w/ things like
httpd iirc. I really don't like it when it happens though.
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