Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > I need a non-numeric version for continuous publishing of gettext snapshot > > tarballs, and I want the tarballs to be called gettext-snapshot.tar.gz, > > I wonder how users of these tarballs would be able to identify > snapshots if there is no version information.
They can remember the date at which they downloaded the snapshot. Ideally a download would have a stable URL _and_ a version number. In some cases, this is not possible or extra effort. I find that for CI tarballs a stable URL is the more important feature. Bruno
