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feature availability and how compatible these versions. |
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Marketing versioning. |
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Marketing versioning schema used for marketing, advertising purpose. It is |
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usually inconsistent and can changed over the time. |
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Examples of marketing version schema: |
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* Years. |
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* Ancient gods. |
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* Star/satellite/galactic names. |
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http://www.cygwin.com/ml/gdb/2007-07/msg00061.html |
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* Is it essential to update major version if significant change made for |
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licence? Answer: NO! |
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for GDB in particular. |
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* Is it right follow date version schema regardless major changes? Answer: NO! |
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Many OS distribution encode year in versions but versions does not present |
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featureset but package set instead. |
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Version name components. |
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* major |
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* minor |
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* patch (patchlevel), micro |
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* rev (revision) |
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* date |
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Major version component. |
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the new package. |
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Minor version component. |
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Revision, micro, bugfix version component. |
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Milestone markers. |
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Strongly recommend: |
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* Numbers are not decimal fractions. They are integers separated by delimiters. |
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* Only offically released versions of the program get version numbers. |
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Development snapshots don't. Nor do test releases. |
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* If the last component is zero, it may be omitted. Do not distinguish version |
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X.Y from version X.Y.0. |
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Debian version ordering formula. |
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Semver version ordering formula. |
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non meaningful. |
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Odd/even numbering. |
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Who use: |
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GLib GTK+ Gimp GNOME Kaffe |
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Assume that app linked with new version of lib. Thus:: |
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http://semver.org/ |
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Semantic Versioning |
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