Re: epoch

["Kenneth Porter" <shiva well com>]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 12:38:21 -0400, Alan Eldridge wrote:

>Jeff, can you give a quick, Reader's Digest summary of epoch, and when you
>should or shouldn't use it?

I've used it with betas, because the normal lexical comparison of
version and release number makes a beta or release candidate seem later
than the release. For instance, a beta for version 3 might be 3.0b1,
which looks like a version that follows 3. I give this an epoch
constructed from the prior release (eg. 200 for version 2.00) and
update the epoch (eg. to 300) when the beta finally goes gold.

Ken
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