- LyX uses a continuous numbering scheme in which odd or
- even numbering is not significant. Instead a number '1.x.y'
- indicates stable release '1.x', fix level 'y'. Prereleases
- are labeled with a "pre" suffix. Thus there are three possible
- file names:
-
- lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz -- stable release
- lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz -- fifth maintenance release of the
- 1.4 stable release
- lyx-1.4.0pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release
-
- The maintenance releases are designed primarily to fix bugs. The
- goal here is not to have parallel development as for the linux
- kernel (the team is too small to afford that), but rather to
- include all the simple (so that the maintenance burden on us
+ LyX uses a contiguous numbering scheme for versions, where a
+ number "1.x.y" indicates a stable release '1.x', fix level 'y'.
+ Prereleases are denoted with the suffix "pre" and there are
+ therefore three possible types of file names:
+
+ lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz -- stable release
+ lyx-1.5.5.tar.gz -- fifth maintenance release of LyX 1.5
+ lyx-1.5.0pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release
+
+ The maintenance releases are designed primarily to fix bugs,
+ and the file format will _never_ change due to a maintenance
+ release!
+
+ The goal here is not to have parallel development as for the
+ linux kernel (the team is too small to afford that), but rather
+ to include all the simple (so that the maintenance burden on us