Re: [Scidavis-contributors] Latest distro support

[Fellype <fel...@ya...>]

Hi Russell,


> As a result of that, I propose doing an interim release of the
> SciDAVis master branch as 2.1, with Qt5 and Python3. There is a
> critical bug that needs to be fixed first (though I can't find the bug
> report on SourceForge), and rebadging the classdesc version as
> SciDAVis 3.x
This sounds good for me.

> The bump in major number might be the perfect opportunity to switch
> the semantic versioning. The first version to be released will be> 2.1.0, and the next beta version of the classdesc branch will be> 3.0.0-beta1. Almost always, the third digit will be zero, but we'll> see. I might use the last digit if I need to make last minute changes> to the distribution scripts, which happens occasionally.
A semantic versioning using a X.Y.Z scheme is the most used and more intuitive (IMHO).
And the 'beta' tag being appended to the version number in beta releases is very good, and also will avoid some mistakes made by users that don't read the README file...

Best regards,
Fellype