2013/2/12 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>: > Mostly fair points; but the biggest issue with this proposal (not > sure why I didn't think of it before, sorry) is that it is not at > all clear that a version like "1.13.0.1" is supposed to be a beta > release. People will easily mistake it for a stable release.
How about this: pick whatever scheme you like for other reasons, and then add "-beta" to those version numbers. In other words, a purely informational suffix, which is not actually necessary for version sorting... (note that the "a", "b", etc, suffixes have the same issue) -miles -- Cat is power. Cat is peace.