[kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming - Take 2

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Saturday, February 01, 2014 19:33:31 Michael Jansen wrote:
> > > > And as already discussed using the date of the final release in
> > > > pre-releases is dangerous.
> > > 
> > > Whatever you guys decide to use. It would be nice if it would be
> > > compatible to
> > >
> > > http://semver.org/
> > >
> > > This is the only attempt to standardize versions i know of. And
> > > remember. I said NICE.
> >
> > I'm not sure whether that applies to us as we don't provide API (all API
> > we
> > provide is in frameworks (or should be in frameworks) and thus is properly
> > versioned as 5.x.y). Also I expect that we will continue to version our
> > .so
> > in the frameworks way.
> 
> They talk about semantic a lot there too. And i think it would be nice if
> all  of kde somehow uses version numbers one can understand without further
> reading.
> 
> The worst thing that can happen is if two kde version numbers use different 
> semantic meanings.

The KDE frameworks follow this scheme, anyway. For the workspace bits, I think 
the same scheme makes sense, and would be in line with how we've been doing 
it.
-- 
sebas

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