code review 13500047: cmd/dist: be more discriminating when determining relea...

cmd/dist: be more discriminating when determining release version

[kortschak, 2013-09-21 11:30:27]

Hello adg@golang.org (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com),

I'd like you to review this change to
https://code.google.com/p/go/

[minux1, 2013-09-21 20:45:17]

LGTM, but please wait for adg.

[adg, 2013-09-22 23:50:57]

I'm not sure that we want this.

There's some good in treating a tagged release candidate in exactly the same way
as a real release. 1.2rc1 is definitely not ready for release; the fact that we
can't even tag it as such is proof of that. I'd rather have a snafu tagging an
early candidate than a surprise tagging the final release.

[kortschak, 2013-09-22 23:54:52]

No worries.

The only reason I proposed was that it would make easier people pointing their
hg to the correct revision. Russ was also concerned.

[kortschak, 2013-09-22 23:55:15]

*** Abandoned ***

[rsc, 2013-09-23 13:43:30]

what andrew did failed for multiple reasons. recognizing the name was just
one of them. these tags need to be on release branches, and we are not
there yet.

[kortschak, 2013-09-23 20:55:23]

Thanks for the clarification.