[Opensim-dev] 0.7.1 off of 0.7-post-fixes

[Karen Palen]

Some years ago Microsoft put out a very well thought out "best practices"
document on version numbering. It covered these issues as well as others.

As a minimum the document would be well worth studying.

I would provide a link, but I am doing this from a hotel room. :-)

Karen

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Robert Martin <robertltux at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Justin Clark-Casey
> <jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > We could do this but then we approach 1.0 very rapidly (0.8, 0.9, ...)
> which
> > would imply some kind of 'completion' and I think that we're still some
> way
> > off that point.
> >
> > We could go into 0.10, 0.11, 0.12, ... but this seems to be confusing for
> > people.
>
> what i might suggest is going to a style of say N.X.Y with Y being a 4
> digit number
> so we could do a bug fix version as 0.7.0010 which would be replaced
> by say 0.7.0020 which would be replaced by say 0.7.0040 ect
>
> personally i am all for having a bin release any time a nontrivial bug
> gets fixed.
>
> --
> Robert L Martin
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