What happened to LC version numbers?

[Mark Waddingham]

If only I were sure that all our tooling would be happy with 'dv' - that might make a good name for nightly builds.

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> On 20 Jul 2017, at 21:18, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
> 
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