Is this a common practice that autotools based projects follow? For publish snapshot JARs to maven for example, we just add "-SNAPSHOT" to the version tag (and hence to the JAR name) before publishing it to maven; without a need to change the version in source control.
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Zhitao Li <zhitaoli...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On May 5, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Neil Conway <neil.con...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Our current practice is that when we create a branch for version X, we > > bump the version number in the "master" branch to X+1. For example, we > > just created the 1.3.x branch, and bumped the version number in master > > to "1.4.0". > > > > Proposal: we should instead use a version number like "1.4.0-devel" in > > the master branch. When the 1.4.x release branch is created, the first > > commit in that branch would switch to use the "1.4.0" version number. > > Meanwhile, master would be bumped to use "1.5.0-devel". > > > > The main benefit is to make it easier to distinguish official Mesos > > releases from snapshots that are taken from the master branch at some > > point during development. Note that according to SemVer, "1.4.0-devel" > > is considered to be "older" than "1.4.0", which is the behavior we'd > > want. > > > > Neil >
