On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:12:11AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 040115 Thomas Dickey wrote: > > I'm working concurrently on builds for both lynx and ncurses. > > With lynx, there is one platform where I found a bug > > (and the machine has no debugger). My plan is to work on that Saturday, > > after resolving some other issues with ncurses. > > The lynx2.8.5dev.17d.patch.gz in ftp://invisible-island.net/temp > > is my current working set of changes. There are some doc changes > > to-do, but (aside from the bug mentioned), no other coding fixes. > > may i suggest a change in version numbering ? > > the 'dev' versions which have been produced during the past few years > -- 2.8.5dev.1 ... 4 ... 5 ... 17 -- > correspond to what other projects would call eg > 2.8.6 ... 9 ... 10 ... 22 . > let's call the imminent version 2.9 rather than 2.8.5 ,
I suppose so. > then call what wb (in Lynx trad'n) 2.8.6dev.1 more simply 2.9.1 ; > occasionally, there mb a special bugfix version eg 2.9.5.1 . The "dev", etc., are an adaptation to PRCS's branching. As I recall it, I can make a branch with alphabetic characters in it, but there was some problem making a numeric-only branch. (But I may be remembering incorrectly) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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