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Re: SVN version numbering

From: Nathan Hartman <hartman.nathan_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:00:45 -0400

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 6:14 AM Thomas Singer <thomas.singer_at_syntevo.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> OK, we are now at SVN 1.11 because you have agreed to release often with
> only a few changes. What does the prefix "1." mean - will there be some
> "2." or "3." in the future? If not, then it is redundant. For time-based
> releases, wouldn't it be more useful to use the year, e.g. the next one
> could be SVN 19 or SVN 19.04?
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
Please don't. Some Linux distros do their version numbering this way and I
can never understand what that means. Much better for version numbers to
denote API compatibility as Subversion does.
Received on 2018-10-31 16:01:10 CET

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