Simon Burge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Howdy. I still feel very strongly that we should up the nmh version number
> > in the CVS source just after releasing each tarball, so that the version
> > numbers of the public releases really have an absolute meaning. Until now,
> > someone could report a bug against 1.0.1 and someone else could say "I can't
> > reproduce that bug" because they're running completely different versions of
> > 1.0.1, at least one of them obtained via CVS.
> >
> > Therefore, I've upped the VERSION to 1.0.3. Unfortunately Doug didn't do
> > this just after releasing the tarball, so there was a small window when
> > someone could have gotten a different 1.0.2 than most end-users have, but
> > hopefully no significant changes were made after 1.0.2 went public.
>
> What if we called it 1.0.3-beta or something - otherwise we don't have
> the concept of "released version" vs. "non-released version", even for
> developer versions.
Well, you have the concept of it, it's just that it's not inherant in the
version number string itself unless one's familiar with the convention
(which we could document prominently on the website, and is instantly
familiar to anyone who knows a bit about Linux).
The thing I don't like about 1.0.3-beta is that it implies strongly that the
next released version to come out will be 1.0.3. This may or may not be the
case. If a bunch of important bugfixes were done and a release made, the
next version probably would be 1.0.3. If a bunch of new features were
added, however, the next version would be 1.1[.0]. It seems more jarring to
me for the development version number to jump from 1.0.3-beta to 1.1 (with
no 1.0.3 ever existing) than for the release version number to jump from
1.0.2 to 1.0.4, especially if you document the even/odd convention.
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