Pre-release versions of packages

[MilesCranmer]

Thanks Stefan; here is the new thread by the way: Can we have pre-release versions in the registry? (v2)

[giordano]

@StefanKarpinski

The syntax the registry uses for deps and compat stuff doesn’t really work with pre-releases. As long as pre-releases and releases have the same deps and compat then it should be fine but this doesn’t seem possible to guarantee.

Is that true for pre-releases? I thought it was an issue only for build numbers.

[StefanKarpinski]

It’s worse for prereleases: the dash is the issue.