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[Martin Buchholz]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:30 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>wrote:

> On 22/05/2014 12:25 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:08 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com
>> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 22/05/2014 11:47 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>
>>         Another way to look at it is that "jdk7u40" is a tag that will
>>         gather
>>         far more interest than the build-specific tags "jdk7u40-b62"
>>         currently
>>         available, which are likely mostly of interest to Oracle release
>>         engineering.
>>
>>
>>     The problem with the build tags is that you have to know which build
>>     is the GA build beforehand
>>
>>
>> I don't see why that would be true.  You can apply a tag to any revision
>> in the past.  So whenever jdk7u40 is officially released, at that time
>> you tag the corresponding revision.  It should not matter that it's the
>> same revision as jdk7u40-b62, and that other tag may have been created
>> much earlier.  If you make a mistake, you can recover - tags are mutable
>> if you use -f.
>>
>
> I think you misunderstood what I meant - I was agreeing with you :)


Ohhh...


> We can tell someone 'hey if you want 7u40 GA you use tag 7u40-b62' for
> example. But if someone just wonders "hmm how do I get GA for 7u40?" they
> would need to know that b62 was it. Now they might reasonably infer that by
> looking at all the build tags and taking the last one, but it would be
> simpler if there was a more obvious tag to use, like 7u40 or 7u40-GA.


Right!
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