Re: [Fink-devel] How to Handle Version Numbers

[Hanspeter N. <fi...@sn...>]

Another alternative to dealing with alpha/a, beta/b, RC/rc names in 
software versions is to put the descriptor into the revision field.  So 
freeciv-2.2.0-RC1 under this mechanism would end up being

Version: 2.2.0
Revision: 0.0rc1.1

The first 0 in revision means that when the final release is out, a 
Revision of 1 will automatically supersede all previous versions.  The 
second 0 is not necessary, but gives a little extra wiggle room, the 
first 1 is the release candidate version (or a1, b3, etc), and the 
trailing 1 works like revision normally does, keeping track of changes 
to the info file.

I used this setup with the firefox3 beta/rc packages w/ no problems.

Hanspeter