Re: GEP-4 : Versioning and branching rules proposal

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:48:17PM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> 	Thus; since I tend to believe the "Don't bump the number if nothing
> changes, because that's horribly inefficient" argument above all others,
> as such I'm against the proposal, until someone can explain things to me
> sufficiently clearly ;-)

There are 2 competing goals.

1) a versioning scheme that can will support gnome version & package
   version in all the phases of a release.

2) not bumping things with no apparant change

In my opinion (1) is more important.  Indeed there is some change
in a package when its version gets bumped to .0 for a release even
though its code has not changed.  That bump indicates that it has
been tested with its new sibling packages (the rest of gnome).

Federic : I like the proposal.
Michael : ftp structure does not seem to be the target.  It
	looks more like Jeff is trying to make the ftp structure
	complement the versioning rather than the converse.