On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Eric Kow <[email protected]> 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 >
As one of the main complainers about the current scheme, let me throw in my opinion. The thing I find confusing isn't the number or the flip flopping of odd/even or any of that. It's the duplicity of the names. Current we have darcs 2.4 beta 3 which is the same source code as 2.3.99 (or something close to that). What I find confusing is that one version of darcs has several aliases. From my perspective, we will continue to have confusing version numbering until we address this duplicity. What I would like to see: One source version, one version name. The problem is that when someone says they are using 2.3.98.1 and I'm using darcs 2.4 beta 1, I don't know if we're using the same version. I default to assuming we're not. So, what I see proposed above doesn't seem to reduce the duplicity. We still have two names for some versions (2.5.97.x/2.6 alpha). Jason
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