On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Mel Whitten <[email protected]> wrote:
> **
> Richard,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Richard Shaw <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:03 AM
> *Subject:* [Freetel-codec2] CMake cutover: Remaining issues
>
> There's one in the root of the source tree and on in src/. The one in src
> has the version set to 0.961 which looks wrong to me. I'm assuming this
> should have been 0.96.1. The one in the root only has 0.96. In either case,
> one of these needs to go away, my vote is to keep the on in the root.
>
> 0.961 I believe is correct. The "1" (not .1 )was added for the WIDE 1600
> experimental mode.
>
>
The problem with that is you essentially changed the version number by
.865 (.961-.96) Which means you can no longer have a release of 0.97 (or
.98 or .99 or anything less <= .961) In order to do that it should be
0.96.1 (patch level increment) or something like 0.97alpha (or beta) to
show it is a preview release.
This isn't just a philosophical issue either. Linux distributions rely on
sane versioning. For instance, for Fedora the breakdown is NEVR, i.e.:
Name
Epoch
Version
Release
Name is obvious, but Epoch is used in cases where you need to force the
system to revert a bad update to a previous known good release (so 1:0.96
would be considered newer than 0:0.97). Then the version as described
above, then the release number which is used when changes to the packaging
are needed but the upstream source has not changed. So the proper fedora
package would be something like this:
freedv-0.96-1 (NVR, as Epoch is assumed to be 0 if absent).
If I released a bad 0.97 package and needed to downgrade back to 0.96 it
would become:
freedv-1:0.96-1
Hopefully I explained that well enough... So I guess the question is, what
is the next version going to be? If it's going to be 0.97 (or .98, etc)
then it must be moved to a patch level number or the alpha/beta method used.
Thanks,
Richard
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