Re: Version numbering

[Earnie Boyd]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Not sure whether it's a concern, but generally most packaging systems
> (RPM springs to mind) do not allow a '-' in the package's upstream
> version.

It's only a concern to the RPM users and maintainers.

If it's a CVS snapshot for the next version increment just timestamp the 
file.  So file foo-1.0.tar.gz is a last release, file foo-1.1.tar.gz is 
to be the next release, then foo-1.1-YYYY.MM.DD.tar.gz is a snapshot 
release.  Candidate releases can be named foo-1.1-RC1.tar.gz, 
incrementing the RC number for subsequent candidate files, if necessary.

This scheme makes it easy to understand and explain.

Earnie.
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