Miscellaneous

Donations

Do you accept donations?

If you really do want to give me a load of money, I will, of course, accept it.

Reading version numbers

How do I read Ion version numbers?

Version numbers consist of a major milestone (or branch/version) number, release status, and release date:

ion-3ds-20041005
    |-- --------
    | |   |
    | |   '-> Release date in format YYYYMMDD
    | '-> status: ds = development snapshot, 
    |             rc = release candidate,
    |             nothing = stable release
    '-> major milestone (stable release) number

So, if you have the major version number suffixed with “rc” or “ds”, it means that the release is a (potentially unstable) snapshot from the road towards that milestone stable release, with “rc” being very close to it.