[sldev] Source release for 1.18.0.0

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 08:22:48PM -0700, Dzonatas wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
> >On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 11:40 +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> >  
> >>I see the non-releases have lost their -beta- (or -branch-) tags...

> >>Is there anyway we can have them back, or some other way to distinguish
> >>release filenames from betas/firstlooks/etc?
> >>    

> >I second this. Being unable to tell if you're looking at a beta or a
> >final release from the filename makes things a bit painful for us
> >downstream packagers.

> That is the way it was around 1.13 and 1.14. It was much harder to tell exactly where things went.

> I vote to make odd version numbers the beta, like the way Linux does it.


Uh, Linux stopped doing that about 2005, if I recall correctly part of
the bitkeeper parting-of-ways changed it to every kernel is "stable
enough", and downstream packagers get to worry about what level of
stable they need to worry about.

I guess GTK still does it though. And Gnome.

I guess this'd be OK too, but it certainly makes things a little harder
on the repository user, since the thing branches into, say,
branch-for-1-18, but it's version is 1.17 until tagged stable.

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