The question is the same I asked when you introduced them :):
Why are symbolic versions treated differently from normal ones?

This has two dimensions:
- why have a different pragma at all?
- why have the distinction between symbols and versions, given that there will 
never be a regular version named 'stable'?

Cheers,
Doru


On 21 Nov 2012, at 19:27, Dale Henrichs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Stef,
> 
> I'm not sure which context you are talking about ... the symbolic version 
> #stable can be used as an argument anywhere that the linear version '1.1' can 
> be used, so I think that it is true that symbolic versions can be used in a 
> #version: message ...
> 
> So I guess I need a little more context ...
> 
> Dale
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Stéphane Ducasse" <[email protected]>
> | To: "Pharo Development" <[email protected]>
> | Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:19:02 PM
> | Subject: [Pharo-project] Metacello Why symbolicversion and not simply 
> tagged        version:?
> | 
> | Dale
> | 
> | in my goal to reduce the complexity of metacello, I'm wondering why
> | symbolic versions could not be expressed as version:
> | 
> | because
> | 
> |     version: #stable
> |     version: #development
> | 
> | are symbolic versions and there is no clash possible with
> | 
> |     version: '1.1'
> | 
> | Stef
> | 
> | 
> 

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