On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 5:35 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Ideally it would be something that connects to the source revision number (as > in > subversion) or the integral id or even a timestamp (that's what an exported > version must be).
Timestamp or reversion number is not overall useful number for a version and here's why: Django (for example) maintains older versions for a set period of time, If you do it via timestamps than 1.1.1 which happens to be released after 1.2.0 (because of a security issue or glaring bug) will be considered "newer". Handwaving the problem away with a source revision number or timestamp ignores a fundamental property of a version.
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