I don't know of Darktable's specific policy with version numbers, but in
the general case version numbers should not be treated as decimal
numbers, but rather as integer sequences. For example the latest Linux
kernel release is 5.16.10, and it's a later version than 5.9.14, because
5 == 5 and then 16 > 9.
I have seen some software using the decimal number approach, but those
usually have only one dot in the version number. Darktable already has
precedent of more than one dot, like 3.8.1.
Mikko
On 17.2.2022 1.33, Matt Maguire wrote:
It’s basic maths — you want version numbers to be strictly monotonously
increasing:
3.10 = 3.1 < 3.8 < 4.0
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MATTHEW MAGUIRE
M.Teach Candidate
Sydney School of Education and Social Work
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University of Sydney
Tel: +61 457 750 214
Email: mmag5...@uni.sydney.edu.au
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From: Solarer <sola...@hotmail.de>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2022 10:12:28 AM
To: darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org <darktable-dev@lists.darktable.org>
Subject: [darktable-dev] Why is the next version 4.0
Was just asking myself why the next version of darktable is 4.0 and not 3.10?
Will there be a major change to the software or do we just prefer shorter
numbers?
Best regards, Jan
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