On 12/02/2013 17:44, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Ah, ok, so in the end you already agree that this is a "documentation"
> issue rather than a versioning one. Please correct me if I'm wrong!
I guess it's a matter of perception.
I honestly don't see the point of beta software if nobody's using it,
On 02/12/2013 04:15 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> On 12/02/2013 09:26, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>>> Given that 1.12.0 was "not really final release",
>>>
>> Why not?
>
> AM_PROG_MKDIR_P.
>
Ah, right. I had forgot about that (selective memory? A dangerous
thing).
>> This is true, but is only du
I like the -alpha/-beta/-rcN markings. As someone who often tracks
cutting-edge stuff, it is nice to have a clear indicator of how stable the
author things something is. This info helps the user do a quick
cost/benefit estimate when deciding what version to use today.
- Daniel
Nate Bargmann writes:
> I was advised by a Debian maintainer to use tilde '~' as the
> separator as any text following it will be considered "older". For
> example, in our project 'Hamlib-3.0~git' is "older" than
> 'Hamlib-3.0' will be once released. A hyphen or underscore trips
> this logic up,
On 12/02/2013 09:26, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> Given that 1.12.0 was "not really final release",
>>
> Why not?
AM_PROG_MKDIR_P.
> This is true, but is only due to the fact that I released them with
> too much haste, without giving time for proper testing. IOW, this
> debacle has been a fault o
On 02/12/2013 03:27 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Stefano Lattarini
> wrote:
>> On 02/12/2013 07:28 AM, Vincent Torri wrote:
>>> Hey
>>>
>>> I'm porting a lib to a non recursive make build system. I have a
>>> single top level Makefile.am which has:
>>>
>>> AUTOMAKE_O
* On 2013 12 Feb 03:08 -0600, Vincent Torri wrote:
> in our project, we append _beta and _rc (or _rc1, _rc2 etc...) for
> beta and release candidate. It's sufficiently explicit. For example,
> 1.14.0_beta
I was advised by a Debian maintainer to use tilde '~' as the separator
as any text following
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Stefano Lattarini
wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 09:25 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
>> 2013/2/12 Stefano Lattarini :
> But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14?
> Today,
> we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with th
2013/2/12 Stefano Lattarini :
> 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.
On 02/12/2013 09:25 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> 2013/2/12 Stefano Lattarini :
But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14? Today,
we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with the scheme
you are proposing?
>>>
>>> There's always 1.14.0.1, ...
>
2013/2/12 Stefano Lattarini :
>>> But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14? Today,
>>> we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with the scheme
>>> you are proposing?
>>
>> There's always 1.14.0.1, ...
>>
> Yuck; the new versioning scheme is done exactl
On 02/11/2013 04:00 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> On 11/02/2013 15:54, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14? Today,
>> we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with the scheme
>> you are proposing?
>
> Given that 1.12.
On 02/12/2013 07:28 AM, Vincent Torri wrote:
> Hey
>
> I'm porting a lib to a non recursive make build system. I have a
> single top level Makefile.am which has:
>
> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects
>
> include src/lib/css/Makefile.mk
>
> In that Makefile.mk, yacc is called and generates the f
Hi Miles.
On 02/12/2013 12:50 AM, Miles Bader wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini writes:
>> But what if we want to have multiple betas for, say, Automake 1.14? Today,
>> we can just have 1.13b, 1.13d, 1.13f, ...; how can we do so with the scheme
>> you are proposing?
>
> There's always 1.14.0.1, ...
>
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