>  > Dot suffixes are traditionally used for branches. We use them
>  > extensively in Seaside.
>
> I dont think you do, are you telling me that he package Seaside2.8a1
>   has a branch called ".8a1"

Yes, that's the 2.8 branch. Up to 2.8 every version had its own branch.

There are smaller examples in the 2.9 repository. For example you have
these 3 branches of the core package Seaside-Core:
Seaside-Core-pmm.configcleanup.53.mcz, Seaside-Core-jf.cache.3.mcz,
Seaside-Core-jf.painter.10.mcz. The first two have been merged at some
point, the latter one has been dropp-.

The original Monticello UI once grouped and sorted these branches
nicely. Somebody broke that a long time ago. Another problem is that
some people decided to use a dot within their initials, that 'breaks'
it too ;-)

Out of the 40 000 versions on SqueakSource there are almost 2 000
versions that use named branching (200 without Seaside). Furthermore,
I know many commercial projects that use named branches as part of
their development/release cycles. So it is certainly not some feature
that you can just ignore when changing Monticello.

Lukas

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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch

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