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[Rene Pöschl <poeschlr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why not just use the date at which the nightly was compiled?

So something like dev-snapshot-yyyy-mm-dd_g23849572
This is sortable and it should confuse nobody.

On 24/07/18 23:58, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> ti 24. heinäk. 2018 klo 22.59 Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>) kirjoitti:
>
>      5.1-dev will confuse the package version
>     sorting when 5.1.0 is released.
>
>
> Why do development packages (nightly builds or self-compiled) need to 
> be sorted with release builds?
>
> The most misleading strings are in the window bar and in the About 
> KiCad dialog, and those texts aren't sorted anyways. Can't they be 
> different than package file names? Windows nightly build package names 
> don't have the version, nor do the ubuntu nightly packages.
>
>     I'm fine with Simon's proposal but
>     users will be no less confused by 5.0.0-452-g23849572 than by
>     6.0.0-rc1-xxx-commithash.
>
>
> Based on my experience with linux distros and applications for about 
> 20 years and as a former open source developer I would like to 
> disagree. But I know it doesn't count... I just want this sorted out 
> because people will be confused for the next couple of years, and we 
> who answer questions in the user forum have to clarify the situation 
> every time.
>
> Eeli Kaikkonen
>
>
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