I wrote: > Ralph wrote: > > > As well as helping decide when the major, minor, or patch version gets > > updated for a release, it also details how pre-release candidates are > > identified, e.g. 1.7.1RC3 doesn't comply. > > I think that we already follow major.minor.patch. Designating a > pre-release version with a hyphen, e.g., 1.7.1-RC3, seems like a good > idea.
It looks like we're already there:
$ cat nmh-1.7.1-RC3/VERSION
1.7.1-RC3
David
