Niclas Hedhman wrote:
Short notice on versioning;
We have more or less concluded that 'version strings' now in use are malicious. They mix concerns too much and should probably not be used in the way it is (indicating buildnumber, compatibility, development stage et cetera). They should be seen as opaque strings and a separate system should be made to express the orthogonal concerns of such version.
That is why we have a separate project just for version concerns.
See http://incubator.apache.org/depot/version/
