Current details for split-inventory work

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Jari Aalto writes:

 > was 1.0 released? or 1.1? Person complaining that his bzr 1.x "does not
 > work", cannot see that his bzr is old. With date based versions it'd be
 > obvious:
 > 
 >   YYYYMMDD

The date is obvious, but whether anything important has changed, and
how much has changed, since then is not.

 > Btw, the "rc*" naming is nightmare for automatic watching of new
 > releases. With pure "sort" naming, a bot could examine web page and send
 > mail when new release is available.

This is what overridable methods are for.  Several packages are
available for dealing with this, including one in Python which
specifically has code for dealing with the rcN style.