Date:	Thu, 08 Nov 2001 21:33:25 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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	Andris Pavenis on Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:21:45 +0200 (WET))
Subject:	Re: allegro headers?
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> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:21:45 +0200 (WET)
> From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
> > 
> > That's probably true.  Actually, I think the version in sys/version.h 
> > should be bumped up a second after an official release is zipped and 
> > copied to DJ's staging area, since everything beyond that is the next 
> > version.  That would be good for all kinds of packages which need to DTRT 
> > based on __DJGPP__MINOR__.
> 
> Perhaps it would still be nice to have version number 2.04 now as 
> current CVS version is different enough from 2.03 release and programs
> should be able to distinguish between them.

Sure, that's what I meant: we should have done that a second after
2.03 was released.  Certainly now is a good time to do that.

> Maybe it would be nice to add also some sign in sys/version.h that one is
> using development version of DJGPP.
> 
> For example gcc version in CVS is bumped before release not after that:
> 	soon after release of gcc-3.0.2 version were bumped to
> 	gcc-3.0.3 YYYYMMDD (prerelease)
> (YYYYMMDD - date)

This is usually tricky to set up.

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