Hello Ryan,
I was working on updating the xcircuit package for NixOS, and I ran
into the issue that it is not clear from the version number whether a
particular version of xcircuit is development or stable. You have to
read the release notes to know, and this seems to mean that a
particular version is development at some point time and stable at some
other point in time.
Many GNU projects use an odd minor version number to indicate a
development release, and I encourage you to consider adopting this
practice for your project so that you can more easily communicate
development and stable releases to packagers and users.
Thanks for your input. It sort of goes in the bucket with "update the
whole git server with something better like gitlab", which is probably
a better approach to the whole versioning control situation.
Yes, major-minor versions are development until I bump them up to
stable, and then I make a new version number for the development code.
I have not really considered how that works from the standpoint of the
package maintainer. It is actually pretty easy for me to just bump
numbers up so that development versions remain development and stable
versions remain stable.
Too late for what's already there, but I'll keep them separated in the
future.
Thanks for being a package maintainer! I really depend on you guys
because I don't have time or resources to do more than the source code
development.
Regards,
Tim
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