[Development] Do we need version tags in released src packages?

[Jani Heikkinen]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne at qt.io>
> Sent: perjantai 13. elokuuta 2021 10.43
> To: Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io>
> Cc: Albert Astals Cid <albert.astals.cid at kdab.com>; development at qt-
> project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] Do we need version tags in released src
> packages?
> 
> El divendres, 13 d’agost de 2021, a les 9:17:16 (CEST), Jani Heikkinen va
> escriure:
> >> We are planning to simplify our packaging and releasing scripts and
> >> one thing which would simplify our scripts is removal of version tag
> >> parsing for src (and example) packages. So the question is if we can
> >> remove version tag (-alpha, -beta1 etc) from our src and exmple
> packages?
> 
> Albert Astals Cid (13 August 2021 09:26) replied:
> > Does this mean that alpha/beta packages would have exactly the same
> > filename as the final packages?

That was my proposal

> 
> and, more generally, what would the practical consequences of your
> proposed change be ?  What would Qt-users (or indeed anyone aside from
> our packaging team) see changed ?
> 
> 	Eddy.

Only release packages would change; no changes to files in git

* Standalone src packages in https://download.qt.io/development_releases/qt/6.3/6.3.0-beta1/single/ would be  qt-everywhere-src-6.3.0.zip instead of  qt-everywhere-src-6.3.0-beta1.zip. And main folder in the archive wouldn't contain 'beta1' either

* Submodule specific src packages in https://download.qt.io/development_releases/qt/6.3/6.3.0-beta1/submodules/ would be qt<submodule>-everywhere-src-6.3.0.zip instead of qt<submodule>-everywhere-src-6.3.0-beta1.zip. And main folder in the archive wouldn't contain 'beta1' either

There is no effect to installation done by online installer; in the installation there isn't version tag shown at all currently either.

br,
Jani