On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 4:05 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel@gmail.com> wrote:

+1 Makes sense.

BTW, what does Rtm stand for?

I'd like to know this too.  No one seems to have answered this yet.  What does "Rtm" mean?  I know what RTFM means.  Doesn't seem to fit here ;-)

 

And how will minor maintenance releases be marked, which happen from
time to time?

As Tobias writes

    SystemVersion current


does not return an 'alpha' suffix, this should be fixed.


--Hannes

On 6/22/16, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel@hpi.de> wrote:
> Tobias Pape wrote
>> On 22.06.2016, at 11:24, marcel.taeumel &lt;
>
>> Marcel.Taeumel@
>
>> &gt; wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> we have a system version: "SystemVersion current". For trunk images, it
>>> used
>>> to say 'Squeak4.1alpha' or something like it. Right now, it doesn't even
>>> add
>>> the 'alpha' suffix.
>>>
>>> Can we change that to 'SqueakTrunk'? What would break? Right now,
>>> SystemVersion works with a string rather than major/minor numbers. I
>>> assume
>>> that there is some code that parses that string. Metacello does that,
>>> for
>>> example.
>>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> SystemVersion current  should give the following
>>
>> for 4.6              Squeak4.6
>> for 5.0              Squeak5.0
>> for trunk    Squeak5.1alpha  (or Squeak5.1trunk if it must be, but please
>> Squeak{stable+1}{dev-indicator})
>>
>> Best
>>      -Tobias
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Marcel
>
> Okay, we good improve the version number in trunk images and treat them as
> (Git) tags.
>
> ...
> Squeak5.1alpha
> Squeak5.1beta
> Squeak5.1rc1
> Squeak5.1rc2
> Squeak5.1rtm
> Squeak5.2alpha
> Squeak6.0alpha
> Squeak6.0beta
> ...
>
> Even if we decide to not make a minor release but a major the tag can jump.
> So, any suffix after the version number indicates the trunk stream.
>
> Alpha = Open to any code submittions
> Beta = Feature freeze, bug fixes only
> Rc1...n = Some bugs fixed, next try
> Rtm = Full code freeze, will be the one to release
>
> Would this work?
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
>
>
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