Eric Kow wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 18:54:41 +0100, Ben Franksen wrote:
>> I can't see any win here over the current system which I personally find
>> perfectly fine and understandable. The 97...99 numbers give clear
>> intuition that they are "close to the next version number". The odd/even
>> scheme does not have this property. The only advantage of the latter
>> system lies in the ability to actually _release_ intermediate development
>> versions for testing. If you plan to do so, well, I'd agree. Otherwise
>> keep it as it is.
> 
> We do release intermediate development versions for testing (just very
> close to the actual release date).
> 
> You also made me realise that this has the drawback of not making the
> distinction between work in HEAD prior to the pre-release, and to the
> pre-release itself.
> 
> So I suggest instead a variant of the idea:
> 
>   darcs 2.5.0.x   for unstable work after darcs 2.4 is out
>   darcs 2.5.97.x  for darcs 2.6 alphas
>   darcs 2.5.98.x  for darcs 2.6 betas
>   darcs 2.5.99.x  for darcs 2.6 release candidates
> 

Yes that makes sense.

Cheers
Ben

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