Re: [SMW-devel] SMW 1.5 already?

[Markus K. <ma...@se...>]

The version number "1.5a" is just to indicate that this is, in principle, the 
development version of SMW 1.5. This does not preclude further releases in the 
1.4 branch. I am unsure what the best naming scheme would be. We usually used 
<Nextmajorversion><Letter>, as in "1.4a". The advantage is that, using 
standard version number comparison algorithms as in PHP, you have

1.4a < 1.4.0

Now the next logical thing would be to have a version between 1.4.0 and 1.4.1. 
This would require a scheme like "1.4.0a", since "1.4.1a" > "1.4.1". Another 
option would be to go back to write "1.4h" or something, but this does not 
clarify that the version is post-1.4.0. Overall, I do not see a very pretty 
solution here, but I can change the string in SVN according to proposals. One 
option would be to really switch to a scheme where the post-release versions 
are marked by appending letters (so it is 1.4.0a indeed, and something like 
"1.4.0f" might become released as "1.5" when ready :-/).

As another remark, I add that the name "1.4.0" does not imply that "1.4.1" is 
planned (even though, in this case, we intend a minor bug-fix update like 
this). The reason for calling it "1.4.0" again is that 

1.4 < 1.4a < ... < 1.4g < 1.4.0

If it was called "1.4" it would order before the devel versions that were its 
predecessors.

Cheers,

Markus



On Mittwoch, 26. November 2008, Daniel Friesen wrote:
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> Yaron Koren wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It looks like, as of yesterday, SMW is already on version 1.5a. I find
> > this odd, since the current stable version is named 1.4.0, instead of
> > 1.4, which seemed to indicate that there were more sub-versions coming.
> > What's the deal?
> >
> > -Yaron
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