> Hi everyone,
> 
> After messing with revision number schemes in other projects, I've come
> up with one I believe is preferable for a number of reasons. Here is the
> scheme:

What are the unmentioned reasons exactly?
> 
> Revision numbers are of the form Major.Minor.Build.Revision. Major and
> minor will reflect the corresponding Java version's major/minor numbers.
> For example, the current release would start with 3.2. While in
> development, the code slated to become 3.3 (say 3.3 beta 1) would start
> with 3.3.
> 
> The build number will be incremented once each time a public build is
> posted. When the major and/or minor number changes, this number resets
> to zero. If I post two public builds with the same major/minor/build
> numbers, it will cause extremely irritating problems with assembly
> resolution and install processes for users, which leaves two choices:
> 
> 1.       Keep this number in sync with the Java version. To do this, I
> would post 1 public build for each publicly posted ANTLR release. No
> previews/betas would be posted between times when the Java build number
> increments.
> 
> 2.       Let this number get out of sync with the Java version. This
> means I can post previews/betas between the regular releases. This is
> the scheme I lean towards.

Why not doing the differentiation of previews/betas without matching Java 
version via simply an increased build number?
> 
> At the time I build a public build, the revision number will always
> reflect the source control changelist number containing the code I'm
> building. The number increases over time and is never reset. The Windows
> Installer does not look at the revision number when checking to see if
> the current version of an application is already installed. In other
> words, if you have 3.2.2.1000 installed and you try to install
> 3.2.2.1001 installed, it will inform you that you already have the same
> or newer version installed and exit.

Isn't that bad (in general as well as for my proposal)? Can't you enforce to 
look for exact matches?

Johannes
> 
>  
> 
> Sam
> 

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