What happened to LC version numbers?

[Richmond Mathewson]

I honestly don't know what the fuss is:

DP or RC, who cares, after all as long as they are numbered reasonably 
sequentially we know
that they are leading up to a 'Full' release (which, after all, means 
the start of another SDLC).

I'm working with 8.1.4 at the moment and having lots of fun with the 
8.1.6 DVs (dirty versions).

Richmond.

On 7/20/17 10:09 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> On 07/20/2017 11:41 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>
>>     ...the more people we can get using DP's (in particular), the higher
>>     quality they will be and the faster new versions will appear.
>
> ...so when was the last time you saw a dp release?
> (of anything other than LC9, which is nothing but, since it hasn't yet 
> reached a state stable enough for an rc release)
>
> Seems to be LC8.1.0dp3 from 29 July 2016
> LC8.1 went through 3 dp releases before getting to RC state
>
> Last one before that was LC8.0.0dp16 17 march 2016
> 16 dp releases before stabilizing
>
> and before that was LC7.0.0dp10 18 August 2014
>
> DP releases are pretty rare. People can't try these unless they're 
> released.
>