[CMake] CPack - Beta or Alpha version?

[Andreas Schneider]

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 15:39:34 Brandon Olivares wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> I was looking at the list of CPack variables. There are variables to set
> the major, minor, and patch version numbers. But isn't there anything to
> set a beta or alpha number?
>
> For instance, what if I wanted a 1.0B1 version?

for package systems it is normally hard to deal with strings. It would be 
better to use something like 0.99.1, 0.99.2 ...

A lot of projects do it this way, e.g. KDE.

KDE 4.3 Beta1 = 4.2.85

> Thanks,
> Brandon

Cheers,

	-- andreas
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