[libvirt] ANNOUNCE: Stable release libvirt-0.9.11.2

Doug Goldstein cardoe at gentoo.org
Mon Apr 30 18:38:27 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com> wrote:
>> Okay, I screwed up the tarball for the first stable release, due to not
>> building it from a fresh checkout :/ No changes for this one except a
>> version
>> bump and dist rebuild.
>>
>> This release can be downloaded at:
>>
>> http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-0.9.11.2.tar.gz
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cole
>>
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>
> Is there any particular reason that the project is using the same naming
> convention for stable releases? It appears to be a minor revision update
> from the standard release cycle. From an outsiders prospective, I don't
> know how anyone would think that 0.9.11.2 is not a standard update from
> 0.9.11, as there is no distinction in either the name from the distributed
> file, or documentation (unless I missed it denoted specifically on
> libvirt.org).
>
> Would there be any objection to using a distribution file name
> libvirt-stable-0.9.11.2.tar.gz ?
>
> To me, it is confusing, but that is just my opinion.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>

Don't change the tarball name like that. That would just plain suck
and be different than how 99% of projects out there do things.

-- 
Doug Goldstein




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