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Re: Things you must consider for version numbering

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-12-17 21:10:12 CET

John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> writes:
> $ svn --version
> svn, version 0.35.0 (dev build)
>
> I built this two days ago, from this path:
>
> URL: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk
>
> so obviously sometimes someone may build something other than from one
> of the blessed releases. Shouldn't we make that part of our
> discussion too? All I'm saying is that I would prefer that this would
> report the revision, too, instead of the generic "(dev build)" tag.
> The presence of the string "0.35.0" is useful to humans, more so that
> just "r8000" would be...

Yes, I understand. But Greg's questions 1-5 were not about this kind
of build, that's all I'm saying. They were about blessed releases.
It's fine to discuss other kinds of builds, but it's confusing to
offer them as answers to questions about blessed releases :-).

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