On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Carsten Ziegeler <cziege...@apache.org> wrote: > ...Again, with proper tooling all of this is no problem....
And we don't have such tooling, or do we? I see the logic in Felix's reasoning, but without tooling I think the burden on developers (and on users trying to make sense of a myriad version numbers) is too high. Not because we are too lazy to do it, but because more work means more room for failure. As for tooling, something that computes digests on the source code of packages, and checks that the version numbers change when the aggregated digests of a given package change, would at least make it possible to know when package version numbers need to change. Also, maybe this version management scheme makes sense for a small number of our bundles (like the API bundles), in which case we might agree to use this scheme just for those few bundles - which also rarely change, making that more manageable. -Bertrand
