On 15/02/12 07:31, Rimas Kudelis wrote: > I think the other vendors do it the other way around (well, at least > Mozilla does, AFAIR): their RC releases indicate themselves as final, so > after renaming, this simply becomes true, and no recompilation is necessary.
rebuilding sounds like a bad idea in any case (FWIW AFAIR for OOo the "rcX" was also not shown in the about box, the installer files were just renamed). > One way to address this and still allow identifying which RC this is > easily would be to implement my suggestion from > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42239. This way, the about > dialog in RC3 would look somewhat like this: > > LibreOffice 3.5.0 > Build ID: libreoffice-3.5.0.3 > > In this case, the fourth number in Build ID line would represent the RC > number. that sounds like an excellent idea: developers and QA know what the .3 at the end means, but it doesn't confuse end users. _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/