Is the version number agreed upon? For IvyDE builds think the latest version of Ivy is 2.5.0.alpha_20161213000915
Gintas 2016-12-15 17:53 GMT+01:00 Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>: > I'd definitely agree with the consistency principle. > > On 15 December 2016 at 01:38, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 2016-12-14, Matt Sicker wrote: > > > > > When it comes to version numbers, I'm more concerned about following > > > semantic versioning than whether or not it's a major release. Bugfixes > > > warrant micro version updates, while new features warrant minor version > > > updates (and backward incompatible API changes are for the major > > version). > > > > I'm not sure how Ivy has decided on its version numbers in the past, but > > for Ant we've never followed semantic versioning that strictly. In > > particular we've created lots of micro releases that contained new > > features and most of the time created minor versions when we changed JDK > > requirements. In a sense we've shifted semantic versioning to the right > > and never created major releases (and neither pure bugfix releases), > > maybe because Ant2 could bring up some ghosts of the far past. :-) > > > > As much as I like semantic versioning (and use it in other projects), > > I'd prefer to stay consistent with the way versions have been used in > > prior releases. > > > > Stefan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >
