Version stuff in CMakeLists.txt

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 5 January 2017 at 08:59, Dag <danders at get2net.dk> wrote:

> Had a closer look at this, and there is some cmake logic when generating
> calligraversion.h:
> Any 3.0.x unstable (alpha/beta/rc) will get version 2.99.x. (3.1.x will be
> 3.0.x, etc)
> Afaics this scheme only works when a minor version is increased, e.g 3.0.x
> -> 3.1.0.
> Is this a disaster? Probably not. If you add a conditional compile e.g in
> 3.0.1 you cannot test in an unstable release, but that would not be often,
> I think.
>
> Alternatives:
> 1) Add a unstable release number as proposed by Rene.
>
> 2) Drop the special unstable numbers (89, 90..) and use the release number
> as a sequential number.
> E.g: We released stable 3.0.0, so now the unstable will get 3.0.1 (string
> could be 3.0.1 Alpha) and when we make a new release it would be 3.0.2.
> This will give unique and increasing version numbers, with the drawback
> that you can not see from version alone if it is unstable or stable, but we
> can use version string for that.
>
> Opinions?
>
>
IIRC we release no alphas. Even when we had that, we release no alphas the
patch version - for x.y.z (z>0).
x.(y-1).89 is thus compatible with the sequence, it comes after all
x.(y-1).* stable and before the next stable x.y.z.

Between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 there's no extra number needed.

What we had with the x.y.z.v was special I think. (?)


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>
> Dag skrev den 2017-01-04 10:45:
>
>> I can't figure out how this is meant to be used.
>>
>> We have now released 3.0.0.1. Next should probably be 3.0.1.
>> So I gather current should be an alpha:
>> Major: 3
>> Minor: 0
>> Release: 89
>>
>> But then we would go backwards to Release: 1 when releasing,
>> and after that we go to Release: 89 again and we can't see
>> what 3.0.89 actually means as it will crop up for every new 3.0 release.
>>
>> Is it just me being confused, or...
>> Anybody?
>>
>


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