[Zope3-dev] Re: A thought on backward compatibility and minimum versions

[Christian Theune]

Am Donnerstag, den 31.05.2007, 11:28 -0400 schrieb Jim Fulton:
> On May 31, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Christian Theune wrote:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, den 31.05.2007, 11:14 -0400 schrieb Tres Seaver:
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> >> Jim Fulton wrote:
> >>> What do you mean by a "dev" release?
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> >> Any release tagged as "alpha", "beta", "rc", "pre", or with an SVN  
> >> revision.
> >
> > I agree with Tres' goal. I think setuptools refers to those as
> > "pre-release tags". And I think anything that has a pre-release tag
> > should be considered unstable.

Right, however, they form a combination of pre- and post-release tags,
e.g:

zope.interface-3.4dev-r1234 is the '1234' post-release of the 'dev'
pre-release and so overall from the perspective of 3.4 a pre-release.

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