On 14.04.2012 22:40, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Stefan Küng<tortoise...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 14.04.2012 22:28, Greg Stein wrote:
I have a proposal:
Skip several numbers and name the next release as "1.7.7".
Justification: to align with TortoiseSVN, which is 1.7.6 now.
There is a lot of "Subversion exception!" threads on users@
where TortoiseSVN version is visible. For example [1].
I think skipping those "already used" numbers will lessen confusion.
Since Subversion is the base project, I would rather see TortoiseSVN
change it's versioning to match ours than the other way. TortoiseSVN
could add an additional version number after Subversion's, e.g.
1.7.4-tsvn1 for the first TortoiseSVN release based on 1.7.4,
1.7.4-tsvn2 for the second, etc.
The TSVN installer already mentions the SVN version number in its file
name,
e.g.
TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632-x64-svn-1.7.4.msi
=========
And the last few 1.6.x releases also didn't have matching version
numbers,
e.g.
TortoiseSVN-1.6.16.21511-x64-svn-1.6.17.msi
So that wasn't a problem back then.
Why is it now?
Konstantin suggested we change Subversion to deal with the
discrepancy, rather than changing TSVN. People felt that was the wrong
direction of change...
I have to say: it *does* make things a bit harder on the users@
mailing list. "What? 1.7.5 has not been released yet. Were you testing
with the unreleased tarball?! Did somebody release that tarball?"
Ok, I see the problem.
But what should I do? I can't name the next TSVN release 1.7.5 since the
current TSVN version is already 1.7.6 - going back one version would confuse
users even more, and would also completely break the update check function
TSVN has.
Suggestions?
I think the previously-mentioned suggestion to use a fourth value in
the version tuple is an excellent one. Just keep incrementing it
until you get back to parity with upstream releases.
We already use the fourth value: that's the svn revision number of the
working copy at the time of the release build.
While I can in the future just use those for 'interim' releases (i.e.,
releases that are out-of-sync with svn releases), that won't help with
the current situation. I can't go back a version.
So I'll keep the first three version numbers the same in the future for
interim releases (in case I have to create one).
But I guess if you want to improve the current situation, there's not
much I can do.
Stefan
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