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From: "Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)" <fordfrog@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:47:48
Message-Id: 45FBAA0F.8080106@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions by Mike Frysinger
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4 According to
5 http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#file-naming-rules
6 it seems to me the versioning is focused on package stability life
7 cycle. In netbeans case it is _prealpha and definitely not stable
8 patched release. So _alpha is the closest one to current netbeans 6.0
9 life cycle phase, though not accurate.
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12 Miroslav ©ulc (fordfrog)
13 Gentoo/Java Team
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16 Mike Frysinger napsal(a):
17 > On Friday 16 March 2007, Miroslav ©ulc (fordfrog) wrote:
18 >> Just a note to this. I'm co-maintainer of netbeans ebuild. Netbeans does
19 >> milestone releases. These are pretty stable and usable since milestone 7
20 >> of netbeans 6.0 with many new features that make sense to use the
21 >> milestone releases. I have to name the ebuilds netbeans-6.0_alpha7 etc.
22 >> though I was assured by mkt guy from Sun it is not yet alpha quality. It
23 >> would be fair to the upstream and to users to not use _alpha because it
24 >> is not alpha but there's no appropriate choice available.
25 >
26 > i would use _p# over _alpha#
27 > -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>