On 31/01/2013 20:58, Jack Kelly wrote: > IMHO, that seems like a great way to cause trouble for unsuspecting > users. (Anyone remember KDE4.0?) Can you expand on why you think it's a > good plan?
Because unlike KDE, automake can put a big fat warning in the generated configure that says "You're using a version unsuitable for production", and then people would understand it much better. KDE 4.0 was a screwup because there was no big fat warning, and users insisted to have it. No user _asks_ for automake. > Is there a system like X.beta1, X.beta2, ..., X.0 that is going to fit > the ordering system for most package managers? Bonus points if it works > in asciibetical order, too. Good luck finding one. Gentoo would be fine with X.Y_betaZ — but I honestly dislike X.Yb because that kind of stuff is usually _after_ X.Y for almost everything but autotools.. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
