Hi Wayne, Wayne Fay wrote on Monday, March 05, 2007 4:35 PM:
> Not looking to start an ideological war or anything, but can someone > perhaps point out a major project (or two) that uses versions which > start with a letter? Major being something with a few thousand > "customers" or something, and open source would be ideal but closed > source works so long as the changelog is freely available so I can see > their version changes for the last couple of months/years. > > I've just never even considered this myself and I'm curious about the > perceived benefits etc of this versioning convention over what I'd > consider the more widely-used number based versioning ie 1.5.2 > (major.minor.patch). > > Or are your version numbers simply coming straight out of your SCM ie > Subversion with versions b23094? I'm genuinely curious. Not starting with a letter, but letters are used in the version of the Xpp3 parser: http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/dist/java-repository/xpp3/jars/ AFAICS it's used by Maven ;-) - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
