: i took a stab at the approach i outlined before, didnt' like it, so i took : a more direct route -- left ${version} alone to mean what it use to mean : (and what it means for other Lucene projects) and added a new : ${specversion} which by default is build out of a hardcoded number and the : current date. a full patch is below, but the key thing to notice is...
went ahead and commited this (albiet with version=1.1-dev since yonik hcanged that already) and updated the HowToRelease wiki. -Hoss