Re: [Audacity-devel] Naming of rcs (in About Dialog)

[Vaughan J. <va...@au...>]

On 3/28/2010 7:16 PM, Gale Andrews wrote:
> | From Martyn Shaw<mar...@go...>
> | Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:11:35 +0100
> | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Naming of rcs (in About Dialog)
>    
>> On 28/03/2010 21:24, Gale Andrews wrote:
>>      
>>> I've already forgotten from last release, but shouldn't rc's appear in
>>> the About dialog as "-beta -rc"?
>>>        
>> No.  From what I understand, they are 'release candidates' ('rc').
>> That is they should be able to be renamed and released 'as is'.
>>      
> "Should", yes.  It's quite true that the file you download says it's
> an "rc", but once you've installed or unzipped into the same folder
> you had for the last Beta, that distinction gets lost.
>
> If the rcs do differ from actual release (they have this time) and we
> don't rebuild so as to change Audacity.h, then I think there is potential
> confusion. The user may think they really have the released Beta, and
> will declare the bug in it that we actually fixed for final release. When
> a support worker asks them for Help>  About Audacity, it will indeed
> appear they have final release.
>
> I think on balance it would be well worth one extra build the last time,
> but it seems there are arguments both ways.
>
>    
Disagree. As Richard mentioned, too much work for a 4-character string 
change, to build and post yet another rc for all platforms/flavors, 
especially because it is no functional change. Successive rc's should be 
about bugs we require fixed, not "-rc".

On Windows, we always just renamed the installer in the past, from rc to 
final. And we never even put "-rc" in the installer-maker script, just 
edited the file name. "-rc" never appeared in About, and should not.

- V