Some advice I received from a Debian developer (packager) was that it
works better when upstream projects refrain from using the hyphen '-' in
their version string. The packaging software will consider 1.0-rc1 to
be more recent than 1.0 as the packaging system appends '-*' to the
end of the
1.00rc0
Personally, when I see a version number like that, I'm never sure what
it means. Probably the first rc leading up to 1.00, but maybe it is an
rc for 1.01 after 1.00. And suffixes sort badly in long lists (see,
e.g., http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/). Anyway. Not trying to change
your
For NTP, we have a kinda hard to describe but easy to read mechanism.
For development versions (odd-number minor releases) each new issue
gets a bumped point number (major.minor.point). If that issue is a
release candidate it gets a -RC suffix.
For stable versions (even-number minor releases)
1.00rc0
Personally, when I see a version number like that, I'm never sure
what it means. Probably the first rc leading up to 1.00, but maybe
it is an rc for 1.01 after 1.00.
Well, I have *never* encountered that `1.00rc0' means a release
candidate for 1.01. Have you?
And suffixes
Folks,
I try to make a release candidate. Theoretically, I could use version
`0.99.99' or something similar, however, it looks much nicer IMHO to
use `1.00rc0'. Unfortunately, the gnits standard currently prevents
this. To be more precise, it's the following regex in the automake
script:
