RFC: Use <package>-N[.N]+ version numbering scheme in releases

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:24:11AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 
> Would it be possible to move away from
> 
>       package-N.N[a-z].tar-gz
> 
> release numbering and use more universal:
> 
>       package-N[.N]+.tar-gz
> 
> Like this; in the furure:
> 
>       mercurial-0.6d.tar.gz  => mercurial-0.6.4.tar.gz 
> 
> I'm preparing official Cygwin port to be included in Cygwin and the
> the porting tools would be more happy to be able to automate the tasks
> with "de facto" numbered packages.

The next release will be 0.7, followed by either 0.7.1 or 0.8.

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