Re: gEDA-dev: gEDA/gaf stable version 1.0.1-20070626 released!

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hamish, Charles, and all,

[snip]
>How do you envisage version numbers to work in the future?

That's a very good question that several people have asked.  

I see a few possibilities:

1) Go back to just the date version number (20070626).  
   Advantage: No changes in numbering required for binary packages.
   Disadvantage: Can't tell the difference between stable releases
                 and development snapshots.

2) Just expose the dotted version like 1.0.1.  Where 1.even#.release#
   is a stable snapshot and 1.odd#.release# is a development snapshot.
   Advantage: It is want everybody is used to.  
   Disadvantage: No relationship between version and date.

3) Have a mix like: 1.0.1-20070626.  
   Advantage: All the information is there.
   Disadvantage: Kind of a mouthfull.

4) ???

In all of the cases, I will maintain the date version internally and
the appropriate version type will be shown to the user (including the
tarball filenames; something I didn't get around to changing in the
release).

I also thought about highly encourging that development snapshots would
never end up in a binary distribution and that only stable releases
would get packaged up (in whatever distribution be it debian, netbsd,
fedora etc...).  However, I'm not about to attempt to enforce that.

Please comment.

		-Ales



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