[development] -- versus - in "new release" system

[Ray Zimmerman]

On Nov 15, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> I had some branching, tagging and updating fro my contribs  
> scheduled for
> today, but as soon as I started readin the scattered documentation  
> on the new
> system, I already ran into the first weirdness.
>
> http://drupal.org/node/93999 talks about DRUPAL-4-7--1-0 tags
> ([CoreCompatibility]--[Major]-[PatchLevel]<-Extra>) while
> http://drupal.org/handbook/version-info#contrib tells me to use  
> 4.7.x-1.0
> (CoreCompatibility-Major.PatchLevel[-Extra])
>
> first: which one is The one?

I think the first is for CVS tags and the second for version numbers/ 
tarball naming.

> CoreCompatibility-Major.PatchLevel[-Extra] is therefore better then  
> the one
> at http://drupal.org/node/93999

But, CVS tags do not allow '.'

     Ray