On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:43:48AM -0700, Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org> wrote: > it'll make the transition harder as you may need to recompile a whole lot > of 3rd party modules, when you move from 5.8.2-alpha to 5.8.2-beta. That's not really something to be concerned about. People who want to install non-released versions really have to be prepared to take care of such things. > You also forgot to mention the C macros SUBVERSION and such. Yes, there really needs to be something available at the XS and perl levels to tell that this is not vanilla 5.8.1 (for purposes of implementing workarounds and test skips for 5.8.1 but not for fixed versions afterward). But I still assert that the easiest solution is to call it 5.8.2 (with the MAINT marker).Thread Previous | Thread Next