On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Spencer Bliven <spencer.bli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not seeing any technical problems with the current non-semantic > version <http://semver.org/> numbers. It might make it harder for > downstream users to guess the newest version since numbers aren't > sequential (due to the date), but major.minor.patch is just a convention. > To keep numbers in a sequential order, you can use the date in the format YYYYMMDD (and eventually HH24MISS if time also). At least order will be still easy to follow. > Your suggestion regarding SNAPSHOT builds would work, but it would mean > that maven always lags one version behind sourceforge. Plus, SNAPSHOT > builds are really intended to be auto-built from trunk. I'm not entirely > sure how Jmol development is currently organized (does trunk correspond to > the 14.7 line?), but it feels like things that are good enough for sf > should be full releases. > I haven't followed how Bob is keeping up with the version numbering. In the old time, there was a stable branch (minor=0, 2, 4, 6, 8...) and a development (minor=1, 3, 5, 7, 9...), but I'm not sure this distinction is still there. Nico > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Nicolas Vervelle <nverve...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Spencer Bliven < >> spencer.bli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I would advocate that maven should get a new artifact whenever >>> sourceforge gets a new jar. For this reason I've been including the date as >>> part of the version number. There is no way to silently replace a previous >>> jar without giving it a new version number, so we can't just have a >>> "14.6.2" branch that will get updated every week. >>> >> >> I thought that not using the maven standard version numbering (x.y.z) >> would make things more difficult for using the artifact. Is it not ? >> Maybe using the SNAPSHOT releases until a version is completely finalized >> ? (for example, only 14.6.2-SNAPSHOT releases until there's a higher >> version number, and then 14.6.2 release is the last in the 14.6.2-SNAPSHOT) >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Jmol-developers mailing list >> Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-developers mailing list > Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers > >
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