On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Stephan Beal wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> So it seems like having dates on the download would be more
> meaningful than having a made-up version number. No? With a
> date, at least you know about how old the code is. What
> information does a made-up version number provide? How is that
> better than a date?
>
>
> FWIW, that's the approach i've taken for all but one of my own
> projects the past 15 years. Version numbers, _unless_ they are
> accompanied by a strict set of compatibility rules involving API-
> and/or binary compatibility, are _absolutely meaningless_.
[joke]
If we all were paleontologists, we could use the names of fossil animals
for significant milestones of Fossil SCM
http://www.fossilrecord.net/
http://www.fossilrecord.net/dateaclade/index.html
http://www.fossilrecord.net/fossilrecord/download.html
Sergei
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