On Friday 11 Feb 2005 14:49, Toni Arnold wrote: > Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 13.20 schrieb Chris Cannam: > > First, I'd just like to note that I don't usually think of 4 as a > > version number but as part of the name of the program > > For gentoo, it's definitively and for all times part of the version > number.
That makes it quite unusual -- most distros I know (Debian, SuSE, PlanetCCRMA etc) have the 4 as part of the package name and not part of the version number. It doesn't matter too much to us what different distributions do, so long as it's possible for them to do _something_, but the fact that distributions _do_ differ means that we can't assume we'll always do it one way just because a certain distro does. > [...] But if the > 1.1 test releases should be subsequently tested by gentoo users, > there is need for a _rcx or _betax naming scheme, as for ardour If the main reason for your concern was because of the use of the name 1.0rc1, then please be reassured we won't ever expect (or want) distros to package anything that's named as a release candidate and hasn't been uploaded to SourceForge. The aim is to minimise the lifetime of these release candidates, not extend it. The previous release was a confusing one, though -- it was called 1.0pre1 to us, with the intention to signal that it was strictly the same as 1.0 in feature set etc., but the tarball was called 0.9.91 presumably on the grounds that it was simpler to slot into a distribution's ordered numbering scheme. Which is an OK principle with me, although I couldn't understand what made 0.9.91 better than 0.9.9.5 or something. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
