Re: SableVM 1.1.7 *prerelease* available - please test!

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:04:46AM -0400, Etienne Gagnon wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Thanks for the great work!  I just have a little comment about the
> distribution files (tarballs).  I thought that we specifically
> designed the staging, bugfree, and stable branches so that doing
> "make distcheck" would automatically create the appropriate files.
> In other words, I disagree with the concept of "pre-1.1.7" files;
> they should be properly named: staging-zzzz.tar.gz, or more
> appropriately in the current situation: bugfree-zzzz.tar.gz (where
> zzzz is the svn repository version).  This makes it so much more
> convenient to exactly locate bugs reported by users, as bugs are
> reported against well identified versions which can be recovered
> (years from now) in subversion.
>

I agree with Etienne.

BTW, which svn version does the pre-1.1.7 version corresponds?
(I looked but did not find any tags.)

David

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