Re: publishing with amaya

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Christopher Whitmey
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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.
> 
>          Hugh