[gst-devel] RELEASE: GStreamer Good Plug-ins 0.10.15 'I've been up all night'

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Jan Schmidt <thaytan at noraisin.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 15:01 +0300, René Stadler wrote:
>
>> No, not all people are fine with the current release procedure. But it's really
>> just small (but annoying) details that are easy to fix.
>>
>> The CVS way for tags was that "you can't have . characters in them", so the
>> outcome was the ugly RELEASE_0_10_14. Now git not only let's you use dots
>> (which is obviously good for consistency), but there's also a sane guideline
>> for versioned release tags: v0.10.14. This is what git.git and kernel does.
>> Some git tools treat these tags a bit differently. It looks nice. It's what
>> people new to GStreamer expect the tags to be (since it's in git!).
>
> Hey, we have tools that recognise the tags we use too. Big whoop.

If that was true they would have been broken with RELEASE-0.10.15.

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Felipe Contreras