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 (stambau...@gmail.com >> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>) 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
