Agreed.  Encoding meaning in this manner just makes for more confusion.
Keep the numbers relatively meaningless and use the stage to encode this
type of thing.

Bob Jarvis
The Timken Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Duane Maxwell [SMTP:dmaxwell at launchpados.com]
> Sent:	Friday, July 16, 1999 4:37 PM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	re: naming releases
> 
> Martin Brown writes about Linux:
> >     <major>.<minor>.<subminor><stage><release>
> >              ^^^^^
> >                |
> >                |
> >
> >If this number is odd, it is a developer release (unstable), and if this
> >number is even, it is a user release (stable).
> 
> 
> Seems a little "hacky" and somewhat arbitrary, don't you think?  After
> all,
> the <stage> (developer, alpha, beta, final) is intended to encode this
> information directly.  The odd/even thing is obscure, and I doubt many
> people on this list even knew about or even suspected such a scheme.
> 
> -- Duane
> 
>