r9358@Kushana: nickm | 2006-10-23 12:02:25 -0400

 clarify recent spec stuff


svn:r8808

doc/control-spec.txt

@@ -941,9 +941,8 @@ $Id$
      Action is a string, and Arguments is a series of keyword=value
      pairs on the same line.
 
-     Controllers who listen to these events will be assumed to want
-     both EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES; see the explanations
-     in the USEFEATURE section command for details.
+     These events are always produced with EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES;
+     see the explanations in the USEFEATURE section command for details.
 
   Actions for STATUS_GENERAL severity NOTICE events can be as follows:
 

doc/version-spec.txt

@@ -32,9 +32,10 @@ All versions should be distinguishable purely by those four
 numbers. The status tag is purely informational, and lets you know how
 stable we think the release is: "alpha" is pretty unstable; "rc" is a
 release candidate; and no tag at all means that we have a final
-release. If the tag ends with "-cvs", you're looking at a development
-snapshot that came after a given release.  If we *do* encounter two
-versions that differ only by status tag, we compare them lexically.
+release. If the tag ends with "-cvs" or "-dev", you're looking at a
+development snapshot that came after a given release.  If we *do*
+encounter two versions that differ only by status tag, we compare them
+lexically.
 
 Now, we start each development branch with (say) 0.1.1.1-alpha.  The
 patchlevel increments consistently as the status tag changes, for