Application version numbers

[John Tapsell]

2009/1/22 Dominik Haumann <dhdev at gmx.de>:
> 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.

Don't suppose you remember the reason for this?

>
> Dominik
>