On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:55 AM, David Jarvie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 16 September 2016 11:55:50 BST, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:52:32PM +1200, Ben Cooksley wrote: >>> >>> It seems that KDE PIM, despite being part of the Applications release, >>> doesn't align it's internal version numbers with the rest of the >>> Applications release. >>> >>> This causes issues - as we've received complaints about various >>> products (all being PIM products) missing versions on bugs.kde.org, >>> due to this mismatch. It's also confusing for users. >>> >>> Can PIM please fall in line with the rest of Applications? >> >> >> This is common across lots of apps in Applications. e.g. Umbrello is at >> 2.20.99 internally. It's always been the case. >> >> Jonathan >> > > This idea was discussed a year or two ago, and it was agreed then that > applications would keep their own version numbering, if desired. > > The KDE Applications version is simply a date indication. It's very useful, > for developers who want it, to be able to have an individual application > version which has a meaning in functional terms. > > I strongly disagree with this proposal to change version numbers.
Unfortunately all it leads to is user confusion as to what they've actually installed. >From their perspective their distribution shipped them Applications 15.10 (as that will be what the release notes say) yet when they got to report a bug they won't find those version numbers. Also, these versions have already been added on Bugzilla, so the confusion is present amongst our own developers as well. >From my perspective, this discord should be eliminated by harmonizing the version numbers. > > -- > David Jarvie > KAlarm author, KDE developer > http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm Regards, Ben
