No, no, Joel, we will start counting at 1 not 0. The first release will be gwt-2.1.1-m1. I think the naming scheme is good (even if sometimes starts with 0, other times with 1).
/kel On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Joel Webber <[email protected]> wrote: > Makes sense to me. So the first one will be gwt-2.0.0-m0, right? > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mostly, this writeup is aimed at people who have been working on GWT's own >> build-related stuff, but if anyone else has objections, now would be a good >> time to raise them (though it seems unlikely anyone would). >> >> In the past, we've never had a good naming scheme for distros other than >> the "general availability" distro. >> For milestones, we used the convention "0.0.<rev>", which probably scares >> people off and isn't at all self-descriptive. For RCs >> and GAs, we used "<major>.<minor>.<bugfix>" (e.g. 1.5.0 was 1.5 RC1, 1.5.1 >> was 1.5 RC2, and 1.5.2 was GA). This is all too ad hoc and confusing. >> >> Here's the new proposal: >> >> <major>.<minor>.<bugfix> (e.g. 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2) >> => This is an official, supported build. Every new minor (or bigger) >> release would start with a bugfix number of "0". >> >> <major>.<minor>.<bugfix>-rc<n> (e.g. 2.0.0-rc1, 2.0.0-rc2) >> => This is release candidate build "n" for the specified upcoming GWT >> release >> >> <major>.<minor>.<bugfix>-m<n> (e.g. 2.0.0-m1, 2.0.0-m2) >> => This is milestone build "n" for the specified upcoming GWT release >> >> In other words, the stream of announced code drops for 2.0 will look like >> this (assuming 2 milestone and 1 rc): >> >> 1) gwt-2.0.0-m1.zip >> 2) gwt-2.0.0-m2.zip >> 3) gwt-2.0.0-rc1.zip >> 4) gwt-2.0.0.zip >> >> Note that we would always include the RC number, even if there's just one >> (because you never know if another one is coming). >> >> I'm very happy to report that there seems to be no need to change even a >> single line of code, as best I can tell. (Thank you to whomever wrote the >> version string parsing code to ignore non-digit prefixes and suffixes.) >> Thus, by simply following this convention when we set GWT_VERSION in the >> continuous build, everything should work just fine. >> >> -- Bruce >> >> P.S. No, Joel, we can't start counting at 0, even though it makes more >> sense :-) I can read your mind. >> >> > > > > -- If you received this communication by mistake, you are entitled to one free ice cream cone on me. Simply print out this email including all relevant SMTP headers and present them at my desk to claim your creamy treat. We'll have a laugh at my emailing incompetence, and play a game of ping pong. (offer may not be valid in all States). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
