On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:24:33PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 16 March 2007, Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog) wrote:
> > Just a note to this. I'm co-maintainer of netbeans ebuild. Netbeans does
> > milestone releases. These are pretty stable and usable since milestone 7
> > of netbeans 6.0 with many new features that make sense to use the
> > milestone releases. I have to name the ebuilds netbeans-6.0_alpha7 etc.
> > though I was assured by mkt guy from Sun it is not yet alpha quality. It
> > would be fair to the upstream and to users to not use _alpha because it
> > is not alpha but there's no appropriate choice available.
> 
> i would use _p# over _alpha#

6.0_p7 is considered a higher version than 6.0, right? That will probably
cause problems in the future. _pre# may be a good choice, though.

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