Hi, On Sep 17, 2010, at 8:41, Dirk Duellmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > since the last call I had a look at several existing project policies and it seems to me that > classical major.minor.patch structure should work well and most users will > have a reasonable expectation what a version change means. For a more formal definition > of the change semantics in each number we could maybe adapt eg the simple approach > described on > http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html This also seems reasonable to me. (I think the date-time scheme was my fault^H^H^H^H^Hidea, and was only really meant for the very early period, now years ago, in xrootd development when only a few places deployed it and usually were very close to the latest version. A more standard scheme is long since due!) Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >