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Re: release 3.4.2
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Rik |
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Re: release 3.4.2 |
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Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:47:22 -0700 |
On 06/19/2011 11:19 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> Yeah, I probably should have done that. What should we set the
> version number to for release candidates of point releases? Does
> something like 3.4.1-rc1 cause trouble? Are there any functions in
> Octave or Octave forge that rely on compare_versions (for example)?
> If so, I think that function fails if given something like
> "3.4.1-rc1". OTOH, it probably fails for things like "3.5.0+" as
> well, and I don't remember complaints about that, so maybe this is a
> non-issue.
I can never guess so I just put 3.4.1-rc1 into configure.ac and ran make,
make check and it passes. Thus, the core is fine with this naming scheme.
Can't say anything about Forge components though.
--Rik