It has been proposed (a long time ago) to change the way darcs versions are numbered, and I've been thinking (for a long time :-) about it.
The way I've been using is simply an extrapolation of how it was done before me, supported by my interpretation of David's expressed intentions at some point very long ago. That scheme is <major>.<odd=experimental/even=stable>.<minor> But now we have darcs-unstable, so there is no need for a parallel "experimental stable" branch version, unless we'd start tagging and releasing experimental versions from darcs-unstable. At some point a new patch theory will enter the picture. It has already been talked about as darcs 2, not 1.1.0. All this speaks in favor of dropping the odd/even numbering scheme. The proposed scheme is <major>.<minor>.<micro> where <micro> is used solely for bug fixes. This could start right away, but with the current build system it would have some limitations. There would be no way of doing a new micro release of a previous minor version; during the time between a minor pre1 and final new minor release, there could be no micro releases. This is of course already the case with no micro releases at all, but what I'm trying to say is that we won't get the full flexibility of micro releases, however users might expect we have that. New patches would have to be pushed to darcs stable only shortly before the next release, whether pre, rc, minor or micro. This would limit the use of the daily build and the beta testing we get from that. The build system could of course be changed to fix this. The easiest way would be if the Dist command supported a tag option, but the makefile could also use Get/Put --tag + rm -rf _darcs/. A bonus feature would be that the next version number wouldn't have to be decided and updated in advance, which I find a little un-intuitive. Instead one would simply pull together the new version and make a tag for it. -- Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
