I'd be fine with that too, but in this thread people was complaining
about standardizing other's people versions that don't use dots or are
more complex
On 12/20/06, Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carlos Sanchez wrote:
> I'd just prefer have xml syntax over string parsing and encourage
> people to use whatever the standard we choose.
Whilst in general, XML can be useful, this might be overusing it.
Versions *must* have some sort of string representation, to be embedded
in file names. That representation really ought to be unambiguous and
parseable. Given that there's a need to design such a representation, I
think it would be better to stick with a single representation used
everywhere, rather than having an alternate XML representation.
Also, humans are used to thinking of versions in terms of strings, and
projects are going to want to describe their versions in human-targeted
text. "We're happy to announce the release of foobar 2.0.1!" is so much
more pleasant than "We're happy to announce the release of foobar
<version><major>2</major><minor>0</minor><patch>1</patch><version>!" :-)
Since project developers are inevitably going to think of and speak of
their projects in terms of compact string forms, better not to introduce
an alternate form, I think.
Max.
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