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diff --git a/version-spec.txt b/version-spec.txt index 5db2994..5b9aeee 100644 --- a/version-spec.txt +++ b/version-spec.txt @@ -32,9 +32,10 @@ All versions should be distinguishable purely by those four numbers. The status tag is purely informational, and lets you know how stable we think the release is: "alpha" is pretty unstable; "rc" is a release candidate; and no tag at all means that we have a final -release. If the tag ends with "-cvs", you're looking at a development -snapshot that came after a given release. If we *do* encounter two -versions that differ only by status tag, we compare them lexically. +release. If the tag ends with "-cvs" or "-dev", you're looking at a +development snapshot that came after a given release. If we *do* +encounter two versions that differ only by status tag, we compare them +lexically. Now, we start each development branch with (say) 0.1.1.1-alpha. The patchlevel increments consistently as the status tag changes, for |