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Re: Strange program version numbering in KiCad

 

I find the current scheme confusing.

I like the 5.99 idea….

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 8 Jul 2019, at 20:03, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 7/8/19 2:58 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
>> On 2019-07-08 2:38 p.m., Nick ??stergaard wrote:
>>> @Kevin, And the version is not just the tag and number of commits, but
>>> also the sha1.
>> 
>> That is true when reporting bugs. I don't care about the sha1 when I
>> want to make sure I am running the right version of KiCad. That is
>> particularly important now that the file formats are no longer
>> compatible between 5.1 and master.
>> 
> 
> This was the source of confusion for the bug reporter that I mentioned.
> The reporter thought that 5.1.0-xxxx-gxxxxxxxxx was older than 5.1.2.
> I can understand the reporters confusion looking just at the version
> numbers.
> 
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