[slime-devel] Re: version numbers

[Luke Gorrie]

Michael Weber <michaelw+slime at foldr.org> writes:

> * Luke Gorrie <luke at bluetail.com> [2004-06-30T00:12+0200]:
>> I checked in a mkdist.sh shell script for creating a distribution. I
>> made a "fake" release called 1.0alpha0 with it here:
>
> FWIW, I do not like such kind of version numbers much.  There are a
> small to medium pain for package maintainers ("Is '1.0' newer than
> '1.0alpha0'?")

Good! Nobody should package the alpha and beta versions anyway. :-)

We can have the great version-numbering war after the 1.0 release. I
think our current plan for that is okay.

-Luke