Oh, I see. I didn't realize that SMW uses branching; or that the numerical
comparison was important.
By the way, assuming SMW does use branching, what is the SVN command one
should call to get the stable 1.4 version? Someone asked about that on the
SF mailing list yesterday.
-Yaron
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Markus Krötzsch <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The version number "1.5a" is just to indicate that this is, in principle,
> the
> development version of SMW 1.5. This does not preclude further releases in
> the
> 1.4 branch. I am unsure what the best naming scheme would be. We usually
> used
> <Nextmajorversion><Letter>, as in "1.4a". The advantage is that, using
> standard version number comparison algorithms as in PHP, you have
>
> 1.4a < 1.4.0
>
> Now the next logical thing would be to have a version between 1.4.0 and
> 1.4.1.
> This would require a scheme like "1.4.0a", since "1.4.1a" > "1.4.1".
> Another
> option would be to go back to write "1.4h" or something, but this does not
> clarify that the version is post-1.4.0. Overall, I do not see a very pretty
> solution here, but I can change the string in SVN according to proposals.
> One
> option would be to really switch to a scheme where the post-release
> versions
> are marked by appending letters (so it is 1.4.0a indeed, and something like
> "1.4.0f" might become released as "1.5" when ready :-/).
>
> As another remark, I add that the name "1.4.0" does not imply that "1.4.1"
> is
> planned (even though, in this case, we intend a minor bug-fix update like
> this). The reason for calling it "1.4.0" again is that
>
> 1.4 < 1.4a < ... < 1.4g < 1.4.0
>
> If it was called "1.4" it would order before the devel versions that were
> its
> predecessors.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Markus
>
>
>
> On Mittwoch, 26. November 2008, Daniel Friesen wrote:
> > ^_^ Hype?
> >
> > ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
> > ~Profile/Portfolio: http://nadir-seen-fire.com
> > -The Nadir-Point Group (http://nadir-point.com)
> > --It's Wiki-Tools subgroup (http://wiki-tools.com)
> > --The ElectronicMe project (http://electronic-me.org)
> > -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
> > --Animepedia (http://anime.wikia.com)
> > --Narutopedia (http://naruto.wikia.com)
> >
> > Yaron Koren wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > It looks like, as of yesterday, SMW is already on version 1.5a. I find
> > > this odd, since the current stable version is named 1.4.0, instead of
> > > 1.4, which seemed to indicate that there were more sub-versions coming.
> > > What's the deal?
> > >
> > > -Yaron
> > >
> > >
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