This was just mirroring the last part of our version number so redundant and it wasn’t monotonically increasing as we switched from alpha.n → beta.1 (with n > 1), so it probably did more harm than good.
This allows the commit command line tool to open a window as “native”.
We use distributed objects for talking to TextMate and getting a response. For the response, we release the connection in the next iteration of the event loop and then gracefully exit the program. Though it’s not clear if this is enough time for distributed objects to reply the client (if not, an exception is thrown in the client about “connection disappeared while waiting for a reply”).
