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[Dino Ghilardi <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>]

As an alternative to the .99 numbering  (that should work well until 5.98
stable version is reached (! :-) ) ) also think about the linux kernel
versioning number scheme: even subversion number means stable release. Odd
subversion number means experimental/development branch. At every release
of the "stable" version  also the experimental subversion number is
increased (by two).


Cheers, Dino.





Il Lun 8 Lug 2019 22:48 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

> How is a number like 99 being any better than the latest release tag?
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 22:43, Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikkonen@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ma 8. heinäk. 2019 klo 21.23 Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx)
> kirjoitti:
> >>
> >> Honestly, I don't have a strong preference
> >> one way or another.  If someone can come up with a system that's
> >> workable for everyone, that's fine by me.  I don't have an issue with
> >> using something like 5.99.0.
> >
> >
> > In the user forum we had to explain 6.0 scheme and now we have had to
> explain this 5.1 scheme, although I like the current one better - at least
> it doesn't make people think v6 exists which was certainly worse than the
> confusion about 5.1.0-dev vs. 5.1.2-dev. The more I think about this the
> more convinced I am that a dedicated number for development version would
> be the best and least ambiguous solution. It could be 5.1/stable ->
> 5.2/development -> 6.0/next stable -> 7/next development or 5.1/stable
> 6/development -> 7/next stable, but I guess 5.99 would achieve the same and
> might be even better because 99 is rarely a stable release number. To
> minimize possible packaging problems with rcN vs. plain numbers  the
> release candidates could be numbered 5.99.1 etc. or even 5.99.1-rc1,
> 5.99.2-rc2 etc. That would make the order extremely clear, i.e. there would
> be no question about whether 99-rc1 is before or after 99 either logically
> or in alphabetical or numerical order.
> >
> > Eeli Kaikkonen
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