Re: Version numbers of unreleased stable and development versions

[Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr>]

Didier Verna <didier@xemacs.org> writes:

> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
>
>> Releases (beta and devel) from Gnus repository and CVS versions:
>>
>> ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------.
>> | Standalone | CVS     || No Gnus | CVS   | Date / notes                 |
>> | Gnus vers. | v5-10   ||         | trunk |                              |
>> | beta rel.  |         || devel   |       |                              |
>> |------------|---------||---------|-------|------------------------------|
>> |            | 5.10.8  ||         |       |                              |
>> |            |         || 0.6     |       | 2007-05-01                   |
>> |            | 5.10.8  ||         | 0.7   | today                        |
>> | 5.10.9     |         || 0.9     |       | close to release of Emacs 22 |
>> |            | 5.10.10 ||         | 0.10  |                              |
>> | 5.10.11    |         || 0.11    |       | ?                            |
>> |            | 5.10.12 ||         | 0.12  |                              |
>> | 5.10.13    |         || 0.13    |       |                              |
>> |            | 5.10.13 ||         | 0.14  |                              |
>> `------------------------------------------------------------------------'
>
>         My .02: I've never understood why people like this kind of
> numbering scheme. I find them so confusing and inconsistent (John uses
> odd/even, Jack uses even/odd, you never know which one is what etc).
>
>
> In my personal projects, I use the following scheme:
>
> - <major>.<minor> beta <level> for development branches
> - <major>.<minor>.<patchlevel> for stable branches
>
>
> Isn't that much more natural and human readable ?

I agree with you, completely.

I never know what version I'm running, is it the newest one, is it
development or stable. Tried few times in the past, but concluded that
it's too hard to grok that. :)

So, these days I just let Debian maintainer to choose the version for
me. :)
-- 
Zlatko