Re: versioning rant (was: svn commit: rev 1336 - trunk/subversion/include)

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:55:53PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 16:40, Greg Stein wrote:
> > Can we just get rid of that darned suffix?
>
> We had this discussion before, and the consensus (I believe) was that
> no, we cannot get rid of the suffix, or we'll have trouble with support
> (since version "0.9" could refer to any of several different tarballs).
> We should have changed the tarball when we went from 0.9rc2 to 0.9.

No, see, that's the problem. There can only be one 0.9 tarball.
Either it works or it doesn't. If it works, all you should have
to do is rename the tarballs. If not, you bump the version
number and try again. No mucking with versions once the tarball
has been rolled.

(Hint: what we did in httpd-land was pass around tarballs that
had the old version number that said 2.0.32-dev - once *that* was
stable, we rolled with a 2.0.32 version.) -- justin

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