Re: [Gc] version numbers

[Ivan Maidanski]

Hi Andy,

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:25:16 +0200 Andy Wingo <wingo at pobox.com>:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a data point: my users seem to be confused about the versioning
> scheme.  There is common confusion about whether 7.2alpha6 is newer or
> older than 7.2b.

It seems we can't do anything better for 7.2, we will continue to release 7.2c, 7.2d, ...

> I still like the idea of major.minor.micro, with even minor numbers
> indicating stable releases, and odd ones indicating development
> releases. :)

As I understand we've agreed to use something like this starting from 7.4

Regards,
Ivan

> 
> Andy
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