[Dovecot] Version numbering

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Wed Mar 28 09:28:24 EEST 2007


> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> After v1.0 is released, I can finally get back to sane version numbers.
>> But any comments on which one is better:
>>
>> a) Postfix-style: "1.1.UNSTABLE.YYYYMMDD" -> 1.1.0 (stable)
>>
>> b) Odd-even numbering: 1.1.x (unstable) -> 1.2.0 (stable)

I like (a) but even better I like 1.1.0{a,b,rc}N -> 1.1.0

Even-odd is confusing because you can't tell which 1.1.x versions are
newer than any 1.2.y version.

-frank


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