Stefan Andersson wrote: > Good point. I actually considered introducing this kind of scheme in the > VersionInfo field, but got vexed by the > > "Keep to 27 chars" > > comment. > > Anybody knows about that? Why 27? Would less be critical? More?
Many is the time I looked at this and wondered myself. I actually suspect it's done like that in order to fit in another string (or have another string fitted in it) later on. So I don't think that it has anything to do with viewer expectations though I never got round to testing that theory out. > > If we can manage it reasonably, I would like to introduce an Enum just > tagging release-type to that string. > > Other than that, the revision number should be in there. > > Best regards, > Stefan Andersson > Tribal Media AB > > > > > > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:11:56 -0400 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Proposal: Light-weight Release Cycle > > > > On 2009-03-11 07:49:46 -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > > 7) The "-release" tag is branched to a "-post-fixes" branch for > continued > > > service awaiting the next cycle. > > > > May I request that anything committed to -post-fixes after branching > > result in an incremented tag (0.6.4.1-release or 0.6.4a-release or > > something) & accompanying change in VersionInfo.cs? Otherwise one > > has no way of knowing whether someone is running the tagged release > > or one of the versions that came out of the -post-fixes branch. There > > was a lot of confusion in #opensim with 0.6.3 because changes were > > committed to the -post-fixes branch but the versions both before and > > after the commit were referred to as "0.6.3". > > > > Thanks. > > > > -Coyle > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensim-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev -- justincc Justin Clark-Casey http://justincc.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
