[Xastir] Stable release plus version numbering

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Tom Russo wrote:

> > In other words go to 1.10 instead of 2.0, and make the next devel
> > version be 1.11?
>
> No, I was thinking more like the next stable release would be 1.9.0 and
> the next devel snapshot would be 1.9.1, etc.

Which makes us non-compliant with the Release HOWTO.


> > This might muck with the TOCALL a bit.  Right now we're sending
> > APX185.  We'd need to send APX110 which would appear to be going
> > backwards in our revisions.
>
> Can't we have seven character tocalls?  APX1110?

Nope.  AX.25 spec allows six characters in the callsign field, no
more.  You also get 4 bits to stuff an SSID into, which is why they
can go from 0 to 15.

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