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Re: The version string in the master branch

 

Dates do not convey useful branch information which is important from a
developer point of view.

It seems to me that 5.1.0-dev would sort before 5.1.0-rc1 or am I
missing something?  Would one of our package devs care to comment.  If
this sorts properly, I will change the kicad version and repo tag to
reflect this.  If not, we need to come up with a version tag that will
not break packages install order and still inform developers from which
branch the package was built.

On 7/25/2018 2:23 AM, Rene Pöschl wrote:
> 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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