On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Alan Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 10:32 +0100, Aidan Skinner wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Alan Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I haven't made the change in case it needs discussion - we can probably >> > find some combo of characters that works if we absolutely must (maybe >> > 0.3.incubatorM3 would work...) but I don't feel like farting around >> > testing all the things that might break if we can just use a normal, >> > sane numeric major.minor version like most of the software universe. >> >> There's a legal reason for using incubating in the artifcat name[1], >> so the tarfile will still have that in there, the spec itself should >> be ok as 0.3 though. On graduation we'd need to change our names to >> apache-qpid instead of qpid- > > I think the right way to fix this is to change PACKAGE in configure.ac > to qpid-incubating (or even apache-qpid-incubating) That will set the > tarball name and won't break anything (that I can think of) except maybe > downstream scripts that refer to the tarball by name (and they'll break > anyway with the version change.)
Excuse my autoconf ignorance here, what does PACKAGE do? I can't find it in configure.ac just now. Does it only affect the tarballs? - Aidan -- Apache Qpid - World Domination through Advanced Message Queueing http://cwiki.apache.org/qpid "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time." - Theodore Roosevelt
