# from Michael G Schwern
# on Saturday 22 December 2007 05:02:
>It's the programatic equivalent of asking the author and it's about
> the best you can hope for. It doesn't need to be particularly
> accurate or finely grained. Just enough to get a feel for "is it
> safe to install this"? It might be as simple as "experimental" vs
> "release" qualities which would replace the X.YY_ZZ alpha version
> convention.
That would be nice. I think it implies freezing/deprecating the current
index and moving on to something else though. But I started saying we
should do that as of configure_requires.
>Or there's Debian's tiers of "experimental", "unstable", "testing" and
> "stable".
Yes.
--Eric
--
But as soon as you hear the Doppler shift dropping in pitch, you know
that they're probably going to miss your house, because if they were on
a collision course with your house, the pitch would stay the same until
impact. As I said, that one's subtle.
--Larry Wall
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