Application version numbers

[Dominik Haumann]

On Thursday 22 January 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
> Is it possible to have an application version just simply be the
> version number of KDE?
>
> The version numbers tend to be confusing.  For example, kate is
> released with each KDE release.  It follows the KDE releases exactly,
> so shouldn't the kate version be simply the KDE release version?
>
> Instead kate is at version 3.1.3, while KDE is at version 4.1.3.
> It makes bug reporting kinda confusing.  If I say that I have a
> problem with kate 3, people generally think that I mean the version of
> kate that came with KDE3..  And Konsole is at version 2.1.

We had that discussion on kwrite-devel recently as well, but the general 
consense is that we won't increase the Kate and KatePart version.
If you talk about Kate3, just say "Kate in KDE4" (that what I do) and 
everything should be clear.

Dominik