[tahoe-dev] ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.0β

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
>>>  http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/snapshots/tahoe-lafs-ticket798-1.8.0β.tar.bz2
…
>> http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/snapshots/tahoe-lafs-ticket798-1.8.0%ce%b2.tar.bz2
…
> Well, the link works, but then when firefox saves it I get a file with a
> ? in it.

Okay, how about this:

http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/tahoe-lafs-ticket798-1.8.0b.tar.bz2

> Part of the motivation for just using b is that packaging systems (not
> that this should really be packaged) need to be able to compare versions
> for what's higher.  The open source world really needs a standard for
> how to use version numbers, but the two de facto schemes are the old FSF
> 1.7.1.80 scheme and saying 1.8.0b1 for the first beta.  I've never seen
> anyone use non-ascii characters and have no reason to think any of the
> comparison functions in various package managers will get this right.

Hey that's a good point. Now for what it is worth, the
"tahoe-lafs-ticket798-1.8.0β.tar.bz2", or the identical
"tahoe-lafs-ticket798-1.8.0b.tar.bz2" contains software which, if you
execute "./bin/tahoe --version" will print out: "tahoe-lafs-ticket798:
1.7.1-r4653".

The final release of Tahoe-LAFS v1.8.0 when it comes out (probably
around August 15) will print out "tahoe-lafs: 1.8.0".

Regards,

Zooko