[cairo] Please label development snapshot tarballs as such in their names

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Sep 12 17:43:29 UTC 2020


Currently just getting any release out is an issue. I don't think we make
devel distinction anymore.

On Sat, Sep 12, 2020, 11:27 AM Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> For example, cairo-1.17.2.tar.xz is a development snapshot but this isn't
> obvious from its name.
>
> I suggest that in the future you name them with a suffix "-devel", so that cairo-1.17.2.tar.xz
> would have been cairo-devel.1.17.2.tar.xz
>
>
> I accidentally updated the FreeBSD port from the release 1,16.0 to 1.17.2
> because it wasn't immediately obvious that 1.17.2 isn't a new release from
> its name.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Yuri
>
>
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