On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:29 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > Jeff Trawick wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:21 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Remember your -deps vote is to approve the release of apr 1.4.0-dev and the >>> apr-util 1.4.0 dev, and the API versioning rules will bind from that release >>> forwards. >> >> The APR versioning rules are hopelessly broken if a tarball snapshot >> of the 1.4.x branch before a GA release casts the API in stone. >> >> Surely I misunderstood you. > > Is there a README indicating that the MAJOR/MINOR version tests for this > particular tarball are not relevant/complete? No. > > This is not a snapshot. It is labeled httpd-2.3.4-alpha.tar.xx release. > You surely don't misunderstand what I said.
Why is something with version x.y.z-dev a release and not a snapshot? > As for broken versioning rules, please take that to APR. > > Perhaps in retrospect, APR would consider an even/odds approach as httpd > has for adding (even eliminating) interfaces during a development cycle. IMO the determination could be as simple as whether or not a release in the maj.min series has yet been declared GA.
