Release dates

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:05 +0000, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
> 
> Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at ...> writes:
> 
> > It's not as simple as I'd like. Does anyone have any better suggestions
> > that fit our requirements?
> 
> What about 2009.1.0-beta1 ?

Sadly we do not have the luxury of strings in our version numbers. Cabal
packages use a sequence of positive integers (because this translates
easily into all other formats where as strings cause no end of problems
in translation, eg how do version numbers compare, is beta2 >= rc3?
etc).

Duncan