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From:
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Date:
October 16, 2003 20:04
Subject:
Re: 5.8.2 is built as 5.8.1
Message ID:
20031017030354.GB124@efn.org
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:34:32PM -0700, Gisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com> wrote:
> Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:20:48AM -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
> > > 
> > > Not to me.  I consider 5.8.2 a "milestone", so only releases at or after
> > > that milestone should be labeled 5.8.2.  Everything before that is 5.8.1
> > > with local patches.  I think only RCs should have the new version number,
> > > all dev snapshots/builds should use the previous one.
> > 
> > So, what should 'print $]' in the current bleadperl print, considering
> > that 5.9.0 isn't out yet. 5.8.0? 5.8.1? 
> 
> The easy fix seems to just "release" the current bleadperl as 5.9.0.

That's no fix.  When 5.9.0 is released, I want to be able to install
it.  As soon as a few more changes are applied, I want to be able to
install that as 5.9.1-tobe.  This especially applies since the plan is
to add Module::Build and CPANPLUS once 5.9.0 is out and it will be
difficult to meaningfully try those out without having that perl
installed.

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