Why 3.4a?

[get sirius]

This is purely to satisfy my curiousity. To me, 3.4a implies a 3.4b, and I could understand denoting a first release candidate of 3.4 as 3.4a, so the second release candidate would reasonably be 3.4b. I don't get calling a stable release anything but 3.4. And please don't construe my question as criticism - I'm just a wanting-to-know sort of person .

Thanks!

[WarraWarra]

What happened is the beta testing team got 3.4 and found some bugs, not to confuse it with the fixed version of 3.4 they labeled it 3.4a .
Hope this helps.
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[get sirius]

Good explanation. Thanks!

I tend to be more of a lurker than an active poster, but I do open my mouth occasionally to make a point (sometimes all I accomplish is getting my foot caught in it ). I've been registered on the Gentoo forums since April 2002, and in all that time I only managed to make around 325 posts. Not too many by any standard.

Again, thanks for explaining the 3.4a.

[wolfden]

would it matter if it was called 3.4abcdefg? the release announcements says Final Stable Release

[get sirius]

Don't read more into my question than is there. I said it was simple curiousity, and I meant it Obviously a rose by any other name....

[cheater1034]

They could of named it 3.4.1 :-p

[LinuxHack]

This is purely to satisfy my curiousity. To me, 3.4a implies a 3.4b, and I could understand denoting a first release candidate of 3.4 as 3.4a, so the second release candidate would reasonably be 3.4b. I don't get calling a stable release anything but 3.4. And please don't construe my question as criticism - I'm just a wanting-to-know sort of person .

Thanks!

Don't feel bad I've thought the samething....

Maybe one of the Mods may know???

NEVER MIND for some reason I didn't get the rest of the Post until mine....

BLIND I guess....

[wolfger]

would it matter if it was called 3.4abcdefg? the release announcements says Final Stable Release

Yes, the release announcement says "Final Stable Release". It also says "3.4". I spent a good 10-15 minutes looking for 3.4 before I finally decided 3.4a must be it. To me, 3.4a implies "alpha". A bugfix version should have been called 3.4.1 (like every other distro does it) in my opinion. There is no ambiguity that 3.4.1 is superior to 3.4, but 3.4a makes the user wonder.

[lxnay]

my god

[Eden]

I may as well add my little bit.

When it comes to versioning of software there is no actual standard, there guidelines but no standard. Every distro and every program has there own way of doing versioning, some programmers prefer to update the version for every minor update ending up with 0.2.3.1.5 of a program it just so happens we dont use minor numbers, the a in 3.4a was for beta testers benefits as 3.4 already had been released to them.

With 3.4e coming out we haven't skipped all the letters in between and we haven't gone though 3 other version because e stands for Entropy and not Epsilon if your following the Greek alphabet, which you would be if your assuming a is for alpha and while we are here how come I don't see anyone asking where 3.4b,c & d are?