Release naming

[Greg Meyer]

On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 14:46, Greg Meyer <greg at gkmeyer.com> wrote:
> > It is an issue for packaging but it's really not that hard to work
> > around, but I can see why it would make sense to be consistent with KDE,
> > and I can also see that from a packager's perspective it'd be good to
> > have the tarball's versioned in a way that I don't have to keep editing
> > my
> > specfile/ebuild/pkgbuild/whateverDebiancallsthem in a hackish way.
>
> Exactly :)
>
> > Really, the beta1, beta2, rc1, etc should be emphasized when discussing,
> > but to name the tarball 1.9x for easier packaging should really be
> > noticed by no one except the packagers.
>
> Which is exactly what I have done so far imho.

The problem is we are having people show up on the mailing list talking about 
version 1.90 instead of beta1.  This is what Mark is talking about and is 
very confusing.

-- 
Greg