[DDI-SRG] [Fwd: Re: Version Number Restriction]

[Joachim Wackerow]

Versioning should be apparently very flexible for legacy purposes. For 
building new instances a version scheme with tighter constraints makes 
sense. Then the constraints seem to be dependent from the intended 
purpose or is it possible to define one fixed constraint? If yes, then a 
choice would be possible between "legacy version format" and "strict 
version format". Or is it desirable to have the version format 
user-configurable in any way?

Achim

I-Lin Kuo wrote:
> One more point
> 
> On 9/27/07, *Joachim Wackerow* <joachim.wackerow at gesis.org 
> <mailto:joachim.wackerow at gesis.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     In the documentation we have currently only a major and a minor version:
>     [Major Version].[Minor Version]
>     like:
>     [0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?
> 
>     Is this not enough?
> 
> 
> Major and minor would be enough if, I think, we were only talking about 
> the public version releases of the entire dataset. But since most of the 
> group decided that individual elements in an instance may have different 
> versions, then that won't be enough. In that case, even three [Major 
> Version].[Minor Version].[Build Version] might not be enough.
> 
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> I-Lin Kuo
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