Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
test7 was released, RC1 will be the next release. I make these test releases on my site, the RC1 builds on the auto-build site are not the released version, but instead are whatever is current that night. Once I make a release, I change the version number in CVS, and therefore the version changes in the auto-build.
This means I don't have to make release builds anymore, they are made automatically every night.
interesting.
so to summarize: "test" packages are considered to be stable releases. "RC" (release candidate) packages are considered to be CVS-snapshots.
i guess i am mixing something up, since i would have a guessed to be the other way around. according http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_candidate i would have seen "test" to be "beta", and "RC" to be "gamma"
generally it would be good to have this explained somewhere (e.g. on puredata.info or as a readme on autobuild.puredata.info)
the idea to retrieve the version number fully automated is a good one.
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