On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 at 04:20, Jani Heikkinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > We are planning to simplify our packaging and releasing scripts and one thing > which would simplify our scripts is removal of version tag parsing for src > (and example) packages. So the question is if we can remove version tag > (-alpha, -beta1 etc) from our src and exmple packages? > > In my opinion we don't need those; packages are always released in proper > release folder (like > https://download.qt.io/development_releases/qt/6.2/6.2.0-beta2/) and so on it > should be quite obvious in which pre-release packages belongs to. Official > release are already without any version tag so removing those from > development releases shouldn't matter either. But does someone disagree and > if yes why?
I'm afraid it won't work. There will be a number of users downloading the wrong tarball. Also having the tag in the tarball means you can still know what it is in your downloads folder, where you already lost the version. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
