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

[Greg Troxel]

"Zooko O'Whielacronx" <zooko at zooko.com> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:10 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
>>
>> perhaps gnus is behind the times, but it would be nice to avoid greek
>> letters and make this work in ascii...
>
> How's this?
>
> 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.

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.

I've renamed it locally and will deal when I test, so it's not a big
deal, but I thought I'd mention it.

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