Re: [Gretl-devel] Grelt version branding
On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Artur Tarassow wrote:
Dear all,
I just remembered the discussion we had in Berlin about the upcoming versioning of
gretl.
I really, and I think I wasn't alone with this, liked idea to version it
using years as e.g. Matlab does (Gretl2015a). This may underline the
ongoing development of gretl.
Is this still on the table?
I agree, with one proviso: we already have the $version accessor, which is
geared towards the xx.yy.zz scheme. I don't think it would be a wise idea
to break that.
Hence, I guess that the best thing will be to market future versions with
the year-letter convention, but to keep the old numbering scheme
internally. So, for example, assuming that we release the next version in
February 2016, we'll announce it as Gretl 2016a (or perhaps, simply Gretl
2016), but $version will be equal to 11003 or something like that.
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Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
Università Politecnica delle Marche
(formerly known as Università di Ancona)
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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