Rolf, The versioning method they’re using is referred to as CalVer https://calver.org/ (not as catchy as SemVer) and it is actually quite useful! With one look at the version you can get a good sense of it’s general release date.
Posit, for example, moved their professional products to use this versioning method a number of years ago. I wouldn’t poopoo it so quickly! On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 15:32 Rolf Turner <rolftur...@posteo.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 16:33:40 -0500 > Toby Hocking <tdho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > Version jumps in minor (submitted: 2024.11.2, existing: 2024.1.24) > > It looks to me that you are setting your version numbers in an > unorthodox manner, which could/will confuse the living Drambuie out of > people. > > I conjecture that you are setting your version number to represent the > relevant date. E.g. 2024.11.2 means 2 November, 2024 and 2024.1.24 > means 24 January 2024. > > In my understanding, the usual convention is for the version number to > be of the form l.m.n (or l.m-n) --- major.minor.patch (or > major.minor-patch). The date should be specified in the *Date* field of > the DESCRIPTION file. > > It probably does not matter a hell of a lot. "Writing R Extensions" > just says that the version number should be "a sequence of at least two > (and usually three) non-negative integers separated by single ‘.’ or > ‘-’ characters". > > However you might save yourself some "NOTEs" by adhering to the > "l.m.n" convention and incrementing the components sequentially. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Honorary Research Fellow > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Stats. Dep't. (secretaries) phone: > +64-9-373-7599 ext. 89622 > Home phone: +64-9-480-4619 > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
