On Thu, 22 Dec 2016, James Feeney wrote:

On 12/22/2016 01:33 AM, David Lang wrote:
the reason for this is sort order, if something is sorting versions with an
alpha sort, you want the ~rc to show up as older than the YY.MM release, and you
want that to show up as older than the YY.MM.N releases.

A "cleaner looking" format could be "YY.MM.~m" for the release candidates?

cleaner looking but more confusing. people are used to 'rc' 'beta', etc. .~3 just doesn't have the human readable factor.

David Lang

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