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From: Daniel Frey (daniel.frey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-23 14:10:36


David Abrahams wrote:
> Daniel Frey <daniel.frey_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>>Sounds reasonable. Which makes me wonder if we shouldn't change the
>>naming of branches a bit:
>>
>>We should have a branch for the development of new versions (1.30.x),
>>let's call it DEVELOP_1_30_x. On this branch, we can now add several
>>tags: Version_1_30_0_RC_1, Version_1_30_0_RC_2, Version_1_30_0,
>>Version_1_30_1_RC_1, Version_1_30_1_RC_2, Version_1_30_1_RC_3,
>>Version_1_30_1, etc.
>
>
> I'd prefer shorter names:
>
> v1_30-branch
> v1_30_0rc1
> v1_30_0rc2
> v1_30
> ...

The last one you showed is hopefully a typo. And I'd prefer to have a
separator for the non-releases like the '-' anywhere:

v1_30-branch
v1_30_0-rc1
v1_30_0
v1_30_1-rc1
v1_30_1-rc2
v1_30_1

> It's just an internal naming change that's not hugely exposed even to
> developers, so I don't feel strongly about it.

I think it's up to Beman to decide what's best as he obviously has the
most trouble with it anyway. :)

Regards, Daniel

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