From 86a5b35d0b864741d1c0f59ffa340697eeaaf4af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Harris Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:00:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] An idea about version numbers --- NOTES | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/NOTES b/NOTES index 7dce484..97226bc 100644 --- a/NOTES +++ b/NOTES @@ -231,3 +231,8 @@ the leading zeroes and having three decimal places means they can be formatted correctly from the 'head' table. Not having leading or trailing zeroes in the fractional part means that they can't be suppressed by anything that might try to canonicalise version numbers. + +Inspiration from a cycle ride: sticking the year in the version number +would make it easier to see how old a release is. 3.YYn for the nth +release in 20YY seems good. So the first one would be 3.246 (or maybe +3.251). -- 2.30.2