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

[Wendy Thomas]

My understanding from a discussion with J that what he wrote allowed for 
multiple extensions and the the limitation was that the first part 
consisted of a numeric string.  So


1
1.01
1.01.01
1.A
1.A.1

were all legitimate. you were not restricted to a major and minor version.

wendy




On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Joachim Wackerow wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> --
>> I-Lin Kuo
>>
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