[dev] Release Engineering: Versions

[Jon Parise]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:55:34PM -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:

> > all modules in RELENG_2 should work with all other related RELENG_2
> > releases. Hey, and if a RELENG_3 module works with a RELENG_2 Horde,
> > lucky module!!
> 
> So if we release a new module for Horde 4.x, then it must be called
> something 4.x.  Now the poor user using Horde 3.x will write in "where
> is version 1/2/3 of module something?  I can't find them anywhere!"
> Or they will say "for version 4 of something you think it would be more
> stable/mature/feature-rich!  It must have been around for a long time
> to have 4 versions out, so the bugs should be fixed by now!".

We could always extend the names of our distribution archives to
encode the Horde release, as well:

    imp-3.6_horde-2.tar.gz
    imp-4.1_horde-3.tar.gz

(Or something along those lines.)

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