Volker Grabsch <[email protected]> writes: > Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> schrieb: >> Libidn 1.17 is an alpha release (available only from alpha.gnu.org), see >> the recent discussion on this list about shared library version problem >> discovered in earlier releases. During alpha testing, Marco noticed a >> problem the libidn.map file, and I agree, so I'll need to fix that, and >> then release 1.18 as a stable release. Hopefully this will happen this >> week. > > Thanks for the information! > > BTW, is there a way to distinguish alpha from stable versions > from the version numbers? Are all odd version numbers of Libidn > meant to be alpha versions?
No, that is not possible. I'll add alpha/stable-labels to the NEWS file for the 1.18 release, and use them in the future. > (I'm asking because I'm the maintainer of mingw-cross-env, whose > automatic version detection was confused by Libidn. So I'm looking > for a way to fix that permanently.) I'm planning to use NEWS entries like this: * Version 1.18 (released 2010-02-15) [stable] * Version 1.17 (released 2010-02-05) [beta] This is consistent with some other GNU packages, notably GNU CoreUtils. Thanks, /Simon _______________________________________________ Help-libidn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-libidn
