Beta versioning system

Big O illogical1 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 20:06:20 CEST 2008


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:59 AM, abhishek rane <abhishekrane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Heya,
>>
>> as I've already stated numerous times on IRC, I'm really unhappy with
>> the new versioning system that we've started to deploy in Amarok 2,
>> e.g.
>>
>> beta1 = 1.90
>>
>> I've just talked to another user who got confused by this, and this
>> was probably the 10th time already that this happened. The old system,
>> which we have been using very successfully for about 4 years, was
>> simply
>>
>> beta1 = beta1
>>
>> All was fine with that system. So, if there is no compelling reason
>> against it, I would like to switch back to the old system ASAP.
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> --
>> Mark Kretschmann
>> Amarok Developer
>> www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org
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> To be frank even I was myself confused with this naming system,I installed
> aplha2 and i was left wondering that I had installed the wrong version.Beta1
> should be Beta 1 and so on IMHO because a new users might find it confusing
> when they download say beta 2 and after that it shows 1.9x something.
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Just let me know what you all decide on once it's done. Mac packages
are following linux release numbering system.


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