On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 03:29 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > May I suggest a third, in my opinion superior, way: Both. > > That's what cairo uses, see > http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Version-Information.html . The > micro version number is even in released tarballs, and odd > inbetween. The even number never exists in SVN. The micro number is > bumped by the person doing a release, and then bumped again and > committed after the tarball has been built. Thus there cannot be any > confusion between official released versions and builds from SVN at > least as far as version numbers are concerned.
While that sounds like a sensible policy, Evolution follows GNOME's release schedule and version numbering [1]. So that would have to be enacted for all GNOME components, and that discussion is better suited for desktop-devel-list. Matthew Barnes [1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyone _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
