Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-22 Thread David Lowe
On 20 Feb, 2010, at 12:50 PM, David Lowe wrote: > Sourceforge is giving a 404 error when looking for > "freeciv-2.2.0-rc1.tar.bz2", it has "freeciv-2.2.0-RC1.tar.bz2". D'oh! I was smacking my head over why i kept getting this error even after 2.2.0 became an official release. This fai

Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

2010-02-22 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Another alternative to dealing with alpha/a, beta/b, RC/rc names in software versions is to put the descriptor into the revision field. So freeciv-2.2.0-RC1 under this mechanism would end up being Version: 2.2.0 Revision: 0.0rc1.1 The first 0 in revision means that when the final release is ou