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[Sune Vuorela]

On 2012-06-20, Michael Jansen <info at michael-jansen.biz> wrote:
> Current Version: 4.7.1-SNAPSHOT (in pom.xml) | Task: Build a minor release

A little bit about versioning, quite many distributions[a] has adopted '~'
in version numbers. It has a very special meaning:

'~' sorts before ''

meaning that 4.7.4~beta1 is less than 4.7.4~rc1 which is less than 4.7.4
which is less than 4.7.4-beta. and of course 4.7.4~~snapshot-2012-12-12
is less than 4.7.4~

(on a side note, 0~ is positive and less than zero :)

If we adopt the same magic character with the same meaning, it would
hopefulyl help in exactly telling what we do. E.g. is 4.7.1-SNAPSHOT a
4.7.1 prerelease or a snapshot of the 4.7 branch after 4.7.1 ?

[a] in debian (dpkg/apt) since many years and recently also in new versions 
of rpm

/Sune