Should we vote on this? > -----Original Message----- > From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 11:50 AM > To: James Developers List > Subject: Version numbers... > > > I'd like to propose that we use a version number system like that used by > bugzilla, namely that the head of CVS have an even minor number and > milestone releases have the opposite, in addition "nightly" releases would > have the same version number as the current CVS. > > Thus CVS is currently 2.0a2, when we make a milestone release it would be > released as 2.0a3 and CVS would advance to 2.0a4, that way there > would be no > confusion between bugs reported against released versions and > bugs reported > against nightly builds/cvs. > > this is the explanation from bugzilla.. > > "We only place tarballs of even-numbered minor versions on the FTP server. > The installed version on bugzilla.mozilla.org (and the most recent CVS > version, which is a slightly newer version than the installed version) > always have an odd-numbered minor version. If you want to get exactly the > code that mozilla.org is running, you're out of luck (they make internal > patches just like everyone else), but you can get pretty close by > using CVS, > and the minor version number will be odd. If you want a more > stable release, > you can use a tarball, and the minor version number will be even. " > > d. > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
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