> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Tomcat Version Numbers > > Will the TC 7.x versions numbers increase like 7.0.3, 7.0.4, > and then at some point it will be considered "stable"?
Yes. > That sounds like Tomcat 7.0.0 is not actually a release version, > right? No, Tomcat 7.0.0 was a beta release. > Given that, there's no telling which 7.0 version will be the > first stable one, right? Mark seems to be close to recommending stable, but yes, there's no telling. > Is the same true for TC 6.0? Yes. > What was the first version of TC 6.0 that was considered stable? Looks like 6.0.1 was the first release marked stable. > Browsing to http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-6/ seems > to indicate that 6.0.10 was the first version not marked as "alpha" > or "beta". You missed 6.0.1. > Is there a reason that the alphas and betas are not called > something like 7.0.0-beta1 and 7.0.0-beta2, etc.? Simplicity. When a branch is tagged, its number is fixed at that point, and the content frozen. As field testing progresses, the designation of the branch may be advanced from alpha, to beta, to stable - with no code changes. Or problems may be discovered, code committed, and a new branch tagged, with a new number. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers.
