Version number for KDE 3.5.8

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 02.10.07 14:21:24, Amilcar do Carmo Lucas wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2007 12:21:28 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Well, yes, thats why I'm still not convinced to use 3.4.2. People can't
> > upgrade from 3.4.90 to 3.4.2 because thats a downgrade and needs "force"
> > to do. Also its something that no package system I know supports (thats
> > rpm and deb basically). The only way is to remove the 3.4.90 package
> > first, (for debian packages remove our repository from the sources.list)
> > and then install the 3.4.2 version.
> 
> Why all the fuss about 3.4.90 ?
> 
> 3.4.2 will NOT have more features that 3.4.90.
> 
> Why would people want/need to downgrade? The ones that are already using our 
> binary snapshots wil continue doing it and will get 3.4.91 and so on.

There will probably be at least one bugfix in 3.4.2 thats not in 3.4.90.

> The ones that do not use our binary repositories will get 3.4.2 and that is a 
> big improvemnet over 3.4.1.
> 
> I do not see the 3.4.90 binaries being a problem. And it's not confusing:
> -3.4.90 is always and will always be better that 3.4.2
> -3.4.2 will (when released) be as good as 3.4.90, what is the problem with
>   that ?

See above, thats most probably not true.

Andreas

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