Application version numbers

[David Jarvie]

On Thu, January 22, 2009 3:35 pm, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> On 22.01.09 04:49:41, John Tapsell wrote:
>> > Is it possible to have an application version just simply be the
>> > version number of KDE?
>>
>> Technically: Yes, those apps can simply #include kdeversion.h and use
>> the defines for versions that are in there.
>>
>> Wether or not the app authors want that change is a different story ;)

> I think one reason that we've specifically not just followed KDE's
> numbering
> scheme, is that there have been several times in the past where we've had
> to
> release an interim bug-fix version of KPilot in between scheduled KDE
> releases. Maybe KPilot is special in this regard in that most apps don't
> have the potential of destroying anyone's data in new and exciting ways,
> but
> there's one reason I can think of for not trying to get every app to just
> use the same version number as the KDE release they're distributed with.
> *shrug*

KAlarm has independent releases, in addition to KDE releases. So it also
needs its own version numbering.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm