On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Phil Hagelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hugh Sasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Agreed, but we do have a tradition in the Ruby world about odd minor > > version numbers > > Well, we *had* that tradition, but now Ruby 1.9.1 is going to be > considered the stable release. > > > so another convention for what I've called tiddler numbers seems > > possible. Staying numeric would be better. > > The problem with this is that it makes the number of digits > significant. Rubygems doesn't currently force the use of three > dot-separated parts. Most projects use that, but it's not enforced. > I'd venture to say that most gem owners don't follow the odd/even convention. Plus, with auto-generated gems (like GitHub does), it's very useful to use a timestamp as a component of your version (optionally prefixed with an IRB-sortable non-numeric character).
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