When I was younger too, we at Macromedia used GM and GMC as Golden Master which was the shipping version and GMC was Golden Master Candidate.
We based our processes off of Apple's since our dev lead came from leading the QuickDraw GX team at Apple. Not sure how it is done today, but that's what my memory recalls and I'm the guy who did a lot of the GM/GMC creation. Cheers Sent from my iPad. Please pardon typos. On Nov 17, 2014, at 4:39 PM, Alexander von Below <[email protected]> wrote: > When I was younger, the "Gold Master" was the version actually used for > mass-producing the software. > > And when Apple released the "Gold Master" version of something to developers > via teh Interwebz, that same version of the copy seemed to go to the CD/DVD > mass production facility. > > In the times of digital delivery, the term "Gold Master" lost a bit of it's > meaning. Either you release, or you don't. So these days, anything that Apple > gives to developers prior to public release is technically a "Release > Candidate" (RC). > > It becomes the "Gold Master" (at least in my terms) by virtue of being > released to the public. > > But that's just my €0,02, and who am I to argue with Apple's naming > conventions? > > Alex > >> Am 17.11.2014 um 20:57 schrieb Sean McBride <[email protected]>: >> >> On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:50:20 -0800, Chris Lattner said: >> >>> Note that 6.1.1 is a GM seed (not a beta) - you can use it to submit to >>> the app store. >> >> Is that what "GM seed" means? I've never understood how something can be >> both "GM" and a "seed". :) >> >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Sean McBride, B. Eng [email protected] >> Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com >> Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/below%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
