Hi,
Found this on the GTK mailing list:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-December/msg00113.html
>I humbly suggest that the versioning recommendation for the GTK+ stack
>and GNOME in general is amended for the third "micro" part of the
>version numbers to match the convention used in cairo.
>
>See http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Version-Information.html .
>
>In a nutshell, the idea is that released tarballs have an even micro
>version. The micro version is bumped both immediately before and after
>building the release tarball. The even micro number is never committed
>to SVN. In SVN the micro number is always odd.
Given the recent event with Sunfreeware this might be a good idea. I've
newer liked the SVN code having the version number of the next release.
Especially as we distribute development releases.
Regards
Anders