[Emms-patches] Re: Version numbering scheme

[Tim Landscheidt]

Lucas Bonnet <address@hidden> wrote:

>> at the moment the source at HEAD identifies the version as
>> "3.0" in Makefile and lisp/emms.el - this is bad, as it can
>> lead to confusion with the released 3.0.

>>   I don't think that it is necessary a define a full-fledged
>> numbering scheme à la alpha, beta, rc1, rc2, release, but I
>> would like to be able to:

>> - distinguish hot code being currently developed from code
>>   having been released ("4.0dev" being the predecessor for
>>   "4.0"?), and
>> - maintain previous releases, i.e., while new features are
>>   being added to the "4.0dev" line, bug fixes (in theory)
>>   are backported to "3.1dev" -> "3.1" (or "3.0.2dev" ->
>>   "3.0.2").

> Yeah, we should at least have two branches now:
>  - 3.0-maintenance, to apply bugfixes to the released (and quite old)
>    EMMS 3.0
>  - HEAD, where new code is pushed
>  - plus the temporary branches where fun stuff breaks everything, like
>    typos-fix and so on, which should eventually get merged into HEAD.

> I really need to get up to speed with git :)

Oh, I didn't mean to talk about so low-level stuff as bran-
ches; I'm thinking more about the user who doesn't "git
clone" and still wants to know whether the snapshot he down-
loaded from somewhere on the web is "3.0" or "3.0" :-).

Tim