<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br>On 15 sep. 2016, at 04:46, Kenneth Lakin <<a href="mailto:kennethlakin@gmail.com">kennethlakin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>On 09/14/2016 06:24 AM, Henrik Nord X wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Patch Package: OTP 19.0.7</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>I did a bit of searching, but I seem to have missed any official</span><br><span>documentation on the matter.</span><br><span></span><br><span>So, some questions about Erlang versioning and patch packages:</span><br><span></span><br><span>When the third component of the version number changes, does that</span><br><span>indicate that that version was a patch package rather than a full</span><br><span>release that gets its own tarball on <a href="http://erlang.org">erlang.org</a>? (With the exception of</span><br><span>18.2.1.)</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The versioning scheme that we use is described here: <a href="http://erlang.org/doc/system_principles/versions.html">http://erlang.org/doc/system_principles/versions.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>And yes, normally only major and minor releases get tarballs and Windows installers built and uploaded to <a href="http://erlang.org">erlang.org</a></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>For the foreseeable future, are the only Erlang releases that get source</span><br><span>tarballs & etc. on <a href="http://erlang.org">erlang.org</a> releases that increment the first or</span><br><span>second component of the version number? (Or ones like 18.2.1 that fix</span><br><span>_serious_ errors?)</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>I notice that there were two separate patch packages released today,</span><br><span>each containing a single fix. Was this simply a case of failing to</span><br><span>include the fix for OTP-13890 in 19.0.6, or is there some reason why an</span><br><span>Erlang user would want to install .6 rather than .7 that I'm missing?</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Sometimes that can be the reason, this time we found another bug about 10 minutes after doing the 19.0.6 release.<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>Thanks!</span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>erlang-questions mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions">http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>