Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 25232: /trunk/ /trunk/: configure.in make-version.pl

From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:45:17 +1000

Jaap Keuter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So isn't it time now to 'correct' the development release number from 1.0.99 
> to 1.1.0?

I've never liked this sort of version numbers since string comparisons
don't sort them correctly.

Consider GTK's:

#define GTK_CHECK_VERSION(major,minor,micro)    \
    (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION > (major) || \
     (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION == (major) && GTK_MINOR_VERSION > (minor)) || \
     (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION == (major) && GTK_MINOR_VERSION == (minor) && \
      GTK_MICRO_VERSION >= (micro)))
#if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,4,10)

and Motif's:

#define XmVersion       (XmVERSION * 1000 + XmREVISION)
#if XmVersion>2003

all caused by pseudo numeric version numbers.

1.0.99 would logically be followed by 1.0.100, but "1.0.99" > "1.0.100"

Can we start from now at "1.01.000"? A hundred point releases each with
a thousand patch levels should be enough for anyone. (With apologies to
Bill Gates.)


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