Name that Tree!

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On 02/15/2010 09:12 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:25:03 +0100,
>   Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
>>
>> The obvious way to call something which is not 13, but is something
>> a little less than 13 is 12.9, but I agree with you that it would be better
>> to have 13 in the name instead of 12, so, logically:
>>
>> 12.0, 12.1, 12.2,     13.-2, 13.-1, 13.0, 13.1, ...
> 
> I belive eventually rpm will allow ~ for prerelease stuff, but for now
> the convention is to do -0 releases. For example 13-0.1.alpha, 13-0.2.beta,
> 13-0.3.rc1.
> (Currently fedora-release is version fedora-release-13-0.3 .)


   I too prefer having the final release version in the name ... it is
more clear to humans (12.9 < 13 notwithstanding!)

   These are good suggestions .. thank you!

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