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  3. HOW TOR VERSION NUMBERS WORK
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  6. The Old Way
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  9. Before 0.1.0, versions were of the format:
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  10.     MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO(status(PATCHLEVEL))?(-cvs)?
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  11. where MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, and PATCHLEVEL are numbers, status is one
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  12. of "pre" (for an alpha release), "rc" (for a release candidate), or
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  13. "." for a release.  As a special case, "a.b.c" was equivalent to
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  14. "a.b.c.0".  We compare the elements in order (major, minor, micro,
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  15. status, patchlevel, cvs), with "cvs" preceding non-cvs.
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  17. We would start each development branch with a final version in mind:
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  18. say, "0.0.8".  Our first pre-release would be "0.0.8pre1", followed by
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  19. (for example) "0.0.8pre2-cvs", "0.0.8pre2", "0.0.8pre3-cvs",
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  20. "0.0.8rc1", "0.0.8rc2-cvs", and "0.0.8rc2".  Finally, we'd release
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  21. 0.0.8.  The stable CVS branch would then be versioned "0.0.8.1-cvs",
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  22. and any eventual bugfix release would be "0.0.8.1".
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  24. The New Way
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  25. -----------
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  27. After 0.1.0, versions are of the format:
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  28.    MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO(.PATCHLEVEL)(-status_tag)
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  29. The stuff in parenthesis is optional.  As before, MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO,
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  30. and PATCHLEVEL are numbers, with an absent number equivalent to 0.
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  31. All versions should be distinguishable purely by those four
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  32. numbers. The status tag is purely informational, and lets you know how
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  33. stable we think the release is: "alpha" is pretty unstable; "rc" is a
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  34. release candidate; and no tag at all means that we have a final
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  35. release. If the tag ends with "-cvs" or "-dev", you're looking at a
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  36. development snapshot that came after a given release.  If we *do*
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  37. encounter two versions that differ only by status tag, we compare them
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  38. lexically.
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  40. Now, we start each development branch with (say) 0.1.1.1-alpha.  The
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  41. patchlevel increments consistently as the status tag changes, for
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  42. example, as in: 0.1.1.2-alpha, 0.1.1.3-alpha, 0.1.1.4-rc 0.1.1.5-rc,
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  43. Eventually, we release 0.1.1.6.  The next patch release is 0.1.1.7.
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  45. Between these releases, CVS is versioned with a -cvs tag: after
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  46. 0.1.1.1-alpha comes 0.1.1.1-alpha-cvs, and so on. But starting with
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  47. 0.1.2.1-alpha-dev, we switched to SVN and started using the "-dev"
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  48. suffix instead of the "-cvs" suffix.
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