On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoise...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14.04.2012 22:28, Greg Stein wrote: > >>>>> I have a proposal: >>>>> Skip several numbers and name the next release as "1.7.7". >>>>> >>>>> Justification: to align with TortoiseSVN, which is 1.7.6 now. >>>>> >>>>> There is a lot of "Subversion exception!" threads on users@ >>>>> where TortoiseSVN version is visible. For example [1]. >>>>> >>>>> I think skipping those "already used" numbers will lessen confusion. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Since Subversion is the base project, I would rather see TortoiseSVN >>>> change it's versioning to match ours than the other way. TortoiseSVN >>>> could add an additional version number after Subversion's, e.g. >>>> 1.7.4-tsvn1 for the first TortoiseSVN release based on 1.7.4, >>>> 1.7.4-tsvn2 for the second, etc. >>> >>> >>> >>> The TSVN installer already mentions the SVN version number in its file >>> name, >>> e.g. >>> TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632-x64-svn-1.7.4.msi >>> ========= >>> >>> And the last few 1.6.x releases also didn't have matching version >>> numbers, >>> e.g. >>> TortoiseSVN-1.6.16.21511-x64-svn-1.6.17.msi >>> >>> So that wasn't a problem back then. >>> Why is it now? >> >> >> Konstantin suggested we change Subversion to deal with the >> discrepancy, rather than changing TSVN. People felt that was the wrong >> direction of change... >> >> I have to say: it *does* make things a bit harder on the users@ >> mailing list. "What? 1.7.5 has not been released yet. Were you testing >> with the unreleased tarball?! Did somebody release that tarball?" > > > Ok, I see the problem. > > But what should I do? I can't name the next TSVN release 1.7.5 since the > current TSVN version is already 1.7.6 - going back one version would confuse > users even more, and would also completely break the update check function > TSVN has. > > Suggestions?
I think the previously-mentioned suggestion to use a fourth value in the version tuple is an excellent one. Just keep incrementing it until you get back to parity with upstream releases. -Hyrum -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
