Hi,
I generally would like +0.1 steps, but mostly because it causes less
head-scratching to everyone new to Haskell. Basically the same argument as
Richard says.
I can't comment on how far head.hackage (or any tool relies) on odd version
numbers, I certainly never have. Given that it's all
It makes determining if a ghc build was a dev build vs a tagged release
much easier. Odd == I’m using a dev build because it reports a version
like majormajor.odd.time stamp right ? — we still donthat with dev /master
right?
At some level any versioning notation is a social convention, and this
Hi devs,
I understand that GHC uses the same version numbering system as the Linux
kernel did until 2003(*), using odd numbers for unstable "releases" and even
ones for stable ones. I have seen this become a point of confusion, as in:
"Quick Look just missed the cutoff for GHC 9.0, so it will
