added more details for requesite #2

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Tarek Ziadé 2009-12-12 11:49:00 +00:00
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@ -78,7 +78,9 @@ considered important semantics:
also a micro revision).
2. most projects need special meaning versions for "pre-releases" (such as
"alpha", "beta", "rc"), and these have widely used aliases ("a" stands
for "alpha", "b" for "beta" and "c" for "rc").
for "alpha", "b" for "beta" and "c" for "rc"). And these pre-release
versions make it impossible to use a simple alphanumerical ordering
of the version string components. (Example: 3.1a1 < 3.1)
3. some projects also need "post-releases" of regular versions,
mainly for installer work which can't be clearly expressed otherwise.
4. development versions allow packagers of unreleased work to avoid version