I comment # ... # below. Christopher Whitmey Email = efficient communication NOT a demand for an instant reply! On 4 Oct 2004 Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Irene Vatton wrote: > > > > > The announce message was "[Announcement] Amaya 8.6 Snapshot" and=20 it's > > listed as a Snapshot everywhere. For me it was clear that it could not > > be considered as a stable version. > > best to be explicit about this, though. It could have been the > latest snapshot of a release with recent fixes backported into it. > > > Perhaps the confusion is due to its name 8.6. > > > > We plan also to make a pre-release 2 weeks before the 8.7 release. > > Do we have to call it 8.6+ or 8.7.pre or what else? > > 8.7.pre is better, IMHO. # I have been puzzled by 'Snapshot' - is it a cut down simple version? i.e. not a detailed picture. Didn't there used to be a convention that a release before a final stable one was referred to as Beta? So: 8.7 beta. # > You could adopt the convention used by > Yukihiro Matsumoto for developing Ruby: odd minor versions are > unstable, even ones are stable. > > > > Regards > > Irene. > > HughReceived on Tuesday, 5 October 2004 06:43:04 UTC
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