On 10/8/06, Ross Paterson
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:30:25PM -0500, Brian Smith wrote:
I see that it is documented in later versions. But, I don't see how that mechanism would help in this situation.
You still have to bump the version number immediately before you release. You can bump it again immediately after you release (e.g. if you're using Linux-style odd/even version numbering), but you don't have to, because snapshot source distributions will have version numbers like 2.0.20061008 -- intermediate between 2.0 and 2.1, but with a date for bug tracking.
Isn't that assuming that everybody gets packages from source distributions? In reality, nobody is making snapshot distributions--if somebody has a non-release version, they most likely got it directly from the repository and not from a source distribution. - Brian