There is a clash in the nomenclature used by IBM software development And the one used in the *ix word
The IBM terminology is explained here https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/vrmf-maintenance-stream-delivery-vehicle-terminology-explanation <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/vrmf-maintenance-stream-delivery-vehicle-terminology-explanation> On the other side the *ix is a bit murkier due also to the confusion about library versioning The terms used by CMAKE are PROJECT_VERSION PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR PROJECT_VERSION_PATCH PROJECT_VERSION_TWEAK Looks like ooRexx used a mix of the three So it seem reasonable to use VERSION for the triplet MAJOR_VERSION for the first level RELEASE MODIFICATON For the rest The fourth level in the iBM world Would be the maintenance level, But it would not apply to the whole package , but only to the single components In the repository structure of the PC world The fourth level should be the revision for SVN based Or the hash for GIT/Mercurial repositories And that’ s what I display in my tweaked Rexx <version> Revision : Git, hash[318c73b+], commits(29), date[2020-02-01 16:10:32 +0100] The same for Mercurial ( HG instead of GIT ) For SVN it would be Revision : SVN, revision[1234567+], date[2020-02-01 16:10:32 +0100] The revision is roughly equivalent to the commit count The plus at the end of the hash, revision tells that there are changes not committed Going back to the subject… In reality nobody cares about the single component names In the IBM world when talking about some software version The triplet is reported in some cases the IBM supports ask But only for customer support and maintenance cheers enrico > On 14 Mar 2020, at 15:54, Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at> wrote: > > As there is a "majorVersion", there should be a "minorVersion" and maybe a > "microVersion" instead of "modification" and "release", where the names then > would imply their position in the dot separated Rexx version? This way the > names become self-documentary.
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