On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Gabor Szabo <szabgab@gmail.com> wrote:

In many projects even numbers represent stable version and odd numbers
represent development version.
So why not:
1.2 stable

1.3 development , warn for deprecations A
1.4 stable,           warn for deprecations A

1.5 development , exception  for deprecations A  + warn for deprecation B
1.6 stable,           exception  for deprecations A  + warn for deprecation B

1.7 development , exception  for deprecations B  + warn for deprecation C
1.8 stable,           exception  for deprecations B  + warn for deprecation C

We already use _01, _02 and so on as development versions.

I see it as an added tier and without good reason.

Sawyer.