> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:35 AM, David Jarvie <djar...@kde.org> wrote: > > > > > There has been debate about this for frameworks, and there is an argument > > there (not agreed by everybody) for making all frameworks have the same > > version, since framework libraries are dependencies for other software. > > > > The same arguments don't apply to applications, which in general are not > > dependencies. Other than convenience for maintainers who forget to update > > version numbers, I can see no good reason for forcing applications to have > > a uniform version number. I prefer using the version number to reflect the > > development status of the application (by use of major, minor and patch > > version numbers), as in the past. This makes it easier when dealing with > > bug reports, to know the state of the program at the version in question. > > For maintainers who want to use some other scheme, that's also fine. The > > important thing is to leave the choice. > > > > Personally I prefer having the application versions matching the release > version > (ie. 15.04.x) so that there is no additional versions mapping required ("is > version 3.4 > part of KDE Applications 15.04 or 15.08 or..?"). > > So I for one would also welcome such feature, but can absolutely relate to > David's > position too; the versioning should not be forced on Applications. So this > could be > easily made opt-in by using some predefined CMake variable and projects > having > such var would get the version raised by the scripts. > > +1 to that idea. Hi,
I don't want to force people to use it, just to have always existing and updated KDE_APPLICATIONS_xxxx variables around for people wanting to use them. And I think it makes sense to use them for a lot apps, given not many apps have any real version number updates it seems ;=) (it makes bug reports much nicer, if you can actually track the bug to some released version) Greetings Christoph -- ----------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann --------- AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH Email: cullm...@absint.com Science Park 1 Tel: +49-681-38360-22 66123 Saarbrücken Fax: +49-681-38360-20 GERMANY WWW: http://www.AbsInt.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführung: Dr.-Ing. Christian Ferdinand Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Saarbrücken, HRB 11234