Re: What do Subversion version numbers mean?

--On Sunday, December 21, 2003 7:29 PM -0500 Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
wrote:

> I'd also throw in backward-compatible changes to the programs we ship.
> A script written to svn X.Y.Z should work with SVN X.Y+1.n. (For the

+1 to all that has been said in this thread.

> Anyway, I think we agree on the principles here; I just think that
> http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html isn't a very complete statement of
> those principles as they apply to us.

I agree - just pointing at the APR versioning page isn't 'enough' to satisfy
our users. I think we need a complete page that makes it very clear what our
policies are - wrt protocols, schemas, client apps, etc. Can we point at the
APR page? Sure. But, it can't be complete as APR has different goals.

Kudos to Erik because I was planning on restarting the versioning conversation
tonight anyway. Yay! -- justin

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Received on Tue Dec 23 04:30:49 2003