Heads up on CVS version numbers (bug #2854)

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Adam Jackson wrote:

> Currently CVS checkouts report themselves as 6.8.1.99.  This is clearly wrong,
> because it implies that it's a pre-6.8.2 version.  It needs to be bumped to
> 6.8.99.x to indicate that it's approaching 6.9.

My fault - I changed the number so it does not report as 4.3.99.1, back 
when 6.8.1 was the only version.

>
> I'd like to suggest automatically tagging CVS every two weeks or so with
> incremental version numbers, and also generating snapshot tarballs based on
> these tags.  I'd be happy to set up a cron job to do this automatically if
> people think it's a good idea.
>
> I'll tag CVS as 6.8.99.1 this weekend.

Great !

                          Vladimir Dergachev

>
> - ajax
>