Re: RFC: Switch to a date-based versioning scheme
On 10/26/23 15:48, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
Since we're just a few months away from the 10.0.0 release, I
thought
it would be a good time to bring up this idea.
Can we move to date-based version numbers? I suggest having
libvirt 24.01.0 instead of 10.0.0
24.03.0 10.1.0
24.04.0 10.2.0
...
24.11.0 10.9.0
24.12.0 10.10.0
With a bit of math we are there already. ${MAJOR}+14 and count months
from 0 (like real programmers do).
Jokes aside, version is just a meaningless number. Even more so with
backports. That's why we try to avoid versioned checks in qemu caps as
much as possible.
Firefox I'm using is now at 119.something.something and what does that
tell me? Nothing (except that mozilla entered this stupid race with
chromium).
People ought to stop looking for patterns where there aren't any.
Michal