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-On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:36:26PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
-> "W. Trevor King" <wking@drexel.edu> writes:
-> > I've switched my branch over to the current url, and moved to
-> > last-commit-timestamp version numbers.
->
-> Please, no. Timestamps aren't version strings, that's conflating two
-> pieces of information with very different meanings. Correlating the two
-> is the job of a changelog.
-
-Which we don't bother keeping (also NEWS), since "bzr log" works so nicely.
-If you really want an standard changelog, see
- http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00186.html
-
-> > This removes the "prefered branch" issues with the old scheme, and
-> > version numbers should increase monotonically
->
-> The English word “should” is ambiguous in this context. Are you saying
-> this is desirable, or are you predicting that it will likely be the
-> case?
-
-Both.
-
-> I don't see how it's either, so am doubly confused :-)
-
-The timestamp should at least replace the patch release number, which
-you agree is-desirable-to increase motonically ;). I also predict
-that it will increase monotonically for any given branch, since the
-branch HEAD will have both the most recent commit and the highest
-version number. The only problem I can think of is having your clock
-_way_ off, and that is unlikely enough to ignore. If you hop between
-branches, the timestamp is much more likely to increase going to the
-more modern branch than the bzr revision number, which desynchronize
-between branches fairly quickly.
-
-> The convention for three-part version strings is often:
->
-> * Major release number (big changes in how the program works,
-> increasing monotonically per major release, with “0”indicating no
-> major release yet)
->
-> * Minor release number (smaller impact on how the program works,
-> increasing monotonically per minor release, with “0” indicating no
-> minor release yet since the previous major)
->
-> * Patch release number (bug-fix and other changes that don't affect
-> the documented interface, increasing monotonically per patch
-> release, with “0” indicating no patch release since the previous
-> major or minor)
-
-One problem is that we don't actually have "releases". People just
-clone a branch, install, and go. If you're worried about stability,
-just clone from a more stable branch (i.e., Chris' trunk). I think
-this is good for distributed development, but maybe makes it hard to
-package into a conventional release-based system. With the bzr patch
-number in setup.py as the patch release number, I would be releasing
-my 0.1.363 while Chris releases his 0.1.314, even though they're at
-about the same point. I would rather be releasing my
- 0.1.20090714121347
-while Chris releases his
- 0.1.20090713154540
-Since then the similarity is clearer.
-
-At any rate, I think the two approaches are close enough that an
-auto-updating timestamp beats a manually bumped patch number, since
-no-one ever actually bumps the patch number ;).
-
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