[Camino] branch vs. trunk builds

[paulc]

At 12:00 PM -0800 12/11/06, camino-request at mozdev.org supposedly scribed:

>Or use the branch builds, which have all of the Camino-specific 
>improvements that are being developed for 1.1.  Since almost every 
>Camino change at this point is being added to both the branch and the 
>trunk, there's really no reason for most people to use trunk builds 
>(unless they have a burning desire to see the Acid2 test passing).  
>The entire point of the branch builds is to have a stable development 
>platform.
>
>-Stuart

Indeed, except there has been an issue of identifying which is a 
branch build and which is a trunk build. My first assumption is that 
we are talking about the "nightly" folder. For as long as I can 
remember, all files to download are uniformly  called "Camino.dmg." 
So one needs to rely on the folder name. I think it was only a month 
or so ago when I last checked, I think 1 folder actually said "trunk" 
in it's name.  Just checked and it seems a lot of folders have 
"trunk" added. This is good.

But CAN we assume that any folder that does NOT contain a trunk 
release is a branch release? And, what version is contained in the 
following folders, each one populated today?

2006-12-10-22-1.0-M1.8.0
latest-1.0-M1.8.0
2006-12-11-02-1.1-M1.8
latest-1.1-M1.8

While there MAY be clues, they don't make sense. Why would something 
with yesterday's date be different from something when today's date 
when both are generated today? Why would a "latest 1.0..." be posted 
at the same time a "latest-1.1..." is posted? I see there's a ReadMe 
from 2004 that obviously contains information that has NO elation to 
what is being posted. Why can't a readme that actually tells us what 
is what be posted into this directory? I can't imagine this would 
pose some form of huge imposition to those who know and can post such 
a file...