sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
The problem is that there's no universal definition among
software
packages of what distinguishes a patch from a beta release from an
alpha release from a major from a minor version.
Well, at least patchlevels should be only bug fixes of releases
considered stable and distributed as such. For the rest, the fact that we use
the /minor/ version number to denote a patchlevel only adds to the confusion!
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