[sugar] Activity versioning schema

[Samuel Klein]

>> Basically, there are two separate problems here,  and we should not
>>  be solving them together. One is that the latest release may not be
>> the greatest - because of bugfix releases. I agree with Eben's proposal
>> of minor version numbers as a (totally optional) solution; as long as
>> the minor/major separator is not a decimal separator (that is, [.,]), the

>> meaning is pretty self-evident. (I think that : is the best candidate, by

>> analogy with times and bible verses.)
> This is actually my primary concern.

Ditto.  I'm strongly in favor of supporting minor versions for this -- the
notion of monotonically increasing 'version' is fundamentally misleading.
Major.minor is less broken.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com>
wrote:


> On the contrary, you are missing mine.  I don't *want* this in the bundle.
>  I want this to be a sentence that can be stated, at some point following
> the release of 9.1, by a wiki page, the release notes, a tech support
> person, a friend, or the developer herself.  Nothing more.  No technical
> magic here.
>

+1

SJ
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