version number in default hg branch?

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> fre, 11 04 2008 kl. 14:59 -0400, skrev John W. Eaton:
>> On 11-Apr-2008, David Bateman wrote:
>>
>> | Could we change the version number in the default hg branch?
>>
>> I can change the version number in the default branch now, but what
>> should it be?  Should we make it 3.1.0 and count test releases as
>> 3.1.1, 3.1.2, etc.?  Then I suppose we would make the next stable
>> release as 3.2.0 instead of 3.1.0.  Is that OK?
> 
> Isn't that the way most Free projects work with version numbers? Anyway,
> I think it would be nice to have development snapshots.
> 
> A related question: isn't it about time we drop the 'testing' or
> 'development' release? Now that 3.0 is out, can't we simply have
> 'stable' and 'development' releases?

It doesn't really matter to me as long as the 3.1 tree version number is
numerically larger than all versions that will be released in the 3.0.x
tree. Whatever makes sense is fine with me..

Regards
David