The issue
Pear-group announced a versioning naming standard which unfortunatly failed to explain the reasons behind the decisions made. The aim of the previous standard was
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Formalize the version naming of packages.
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Fix problems with version_compare going from
1.0.0RC1to1.0.1 -
To introduce a rule stating 'no-stable releases before
1.0.0' -
Solve release naming for
My_Package2(second releases)
It also attemtped to introduce a number of more controversial ideas
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Make the package status more visible.
The last one did not result in a complete consensus, and patches have now been made to the packager and installer to add state to the filename, output when installing a package.