Re: Updating release version to 22.1

[Kim F. Storm]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> I think that any suffix should not be separated by a period, but
> instead 22.1-pre1 would seem appropriate.

That is a good idea.

Let's look at the possibilities:


Type             Emacs version             With build number
----------------------------------------------------------
CVS              22.1-dev                  22.1-dev.1
Pretest          22.1-pre1                 22.1-pre1.1
Major Release    22.1                      22.1.1
Bugfix           22.1.1                    22.1.1.1
Minor            22.2                      22.2.1
Bugfix           22.2.1                    22.2.1.1

etc.

This is unambiguous (you get the release version by stripping the last number),
but still too confusing for my taste.

But if we separate the build number with a dash too, it becomes clearer:

Type             Emacs version             With build number
----------------------------------------------------------
CVS              22.1-dev                  22.1-dev-1
Pretest          22.1-pre1                 22.1-pre1-1
Major Release    22.1                      22.1-1
Bugfix           22.1.1                    22.1.1-1
Minor            22.2                      22.2-1
Bugfix           22.2.1                    22.2.1-1


But you say -%d should be avoided; to fix that and make it even clearer
we can use a -bNNN suffix like this:

Type             Emacs version             With build number
----------------------------------------------------------
CVS              22.1-dev                  22.1-dev-b1
Pretest          22.1-pre1                 22.1-pre1-b1
Major Release    22.1                      22.1-b1
Bugfix           22.1.1                    22.1.1-b1
Minor            22.2                      22.2-b1
Bugfix           22.2.1                    22.2.1-b1



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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk