tcl 8.5 alpha in fedora 7?

Jima jima at beer.tclug.org
Wed Feb 7 19:58:30 UTC 2007


On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michael Thomas (wart at kobold.org) said:
>> It seems that the beta release was roughly due in December, but has not
>> appeared yet.  No timeframe is given for the 8.5 final release.
>
> That implies to me that we probably *don't* want 8.5 in F7.

  And when it comes out, it'll need an Epoch.  Whose idea was it to use 
8.5a5 for the Version?  I thought that went against the guidelines (in 
favor of, say, V-R 8.5-0.1.a%{?dist}).
  Huh, whatdya know:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#NonNumericRelease

      Jima




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