Re: [Xenomai-core] About the versioning scheme in the repository

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Romain Lenglet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When is the version number changed in the config/version file?
> Is that value the version 1) of the next release being prepared, 
> or 2) of the last release?
> 
> This is a concern for packaging. I would like to make two series 
> of Debian packages: xenomai, libxenomai, etc. for the official 
> releases, and xenomai-svn, libxenomai-svn, etc. for periodical 
> extracts from the svn repository after releases.
> The problem is: what versions to give to the *-svn packages? For 
> instance, the current value in config/version is 2.0.93.
> The current xenomai-svn package would then have version 
> 2.0.93+svn20060306 (or something like that).

Adding the atomic commit number would be useful.

> 
> Using versioning scheme 1), the next xenomai package would have 
> version 2.0.93.

2.0.94, or 2.1.0 actually.

  This is bad, because the xenomai-svn could not
> be replaced by the next xenomai package:
> 2.0.93 < 2.0.93+svn20060306.
> Even if xenomai (official release package) is more recent.
> 
> Using versioning scheme 2) works, because the next xenomai 
> package would have version 2.0.94 (or 2.1 or...), and hence 
> would have priority over the older xenomai-svn packages.
> 
> 
> So, could someone confirm that what is currently done is scheme 
> 2), i.e. the version in config/version is modified just before 
> tagging the repository and releasing?
> 

There is no current scheme for managing the version file; it's updated when I 
happen to think about bumping the version number. I could enforce 2) from now on 
though, and only change the version stamp just before a release.

-- 

Philippe.