Re: [jetty-dev] Re: SVN heads up /branches/jetty-7.0.0.x

[Jesse McConnell <jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx>]

eclipse further complicates the issue with 'marketing release
versions' and then actual code release versions....our issue is that
we want is effectively the marketing release version in their world as
opposed to the heavy handed actual code release versions...

Its a different mode of release for them since they shove their
release versions of things into bundles called
org.eclipse.jetty.jetty-server_vlotsofnumbershere and those things are
masked behind the scenes in their provisioning systems....

whereas we ask people to be upfront with our artifacts through the
maven GAV and that sort of long version scheme is just more work for
someone typing out the version string of the GAV.

wish there was a way we could have our cake and eat it too....

perhaps we could Major.Minor.Patch release our maven artifacts and
bundle the eclipse update site artifacts in a more normal eclipse
versioning scheme...

*grumble*

jesse

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jesse mcconnell
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 19:04, Jan Bartel<janb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Inline ...
>
> Greg Wilkins wrote:
>>
>> Jan Bartel wrote:
>>
>>>> My vote for the final version number is 7.0.0.v20090921
>>>
>>> Erk :( ! But I guess we don't have much choice as we used up M and
>>> RC for the alpha sorting already. Do we really have to have the
>>> date appended? Can't we have just 7.0.0.v1 ? The file names get
>>> really long and very tedious to type, and I don't really see that
>>> it adds any useful information over and above a simple counter.
>>> But, if that is eclipse standard practise (?) then we should follow suit.
>>
>> I don't like v1, because mentally people will read that
>> as "version 1".   It is not version 1, it is version 7.0.0
>
> You really think so? I reckon most people are comfortable with
> the importance of the leading digits. In fact I think most jetty users
> will be slightly surprised there's a "v*" on the end of the version
> number they've been accustomed to, and may possibly ignore it.
>
>
>> With 7.0.0.v20090921, hopefully people will look at that
>> and mentally think "the version on the 21st September 2009 was 7.0.0"
>
> I think most people are going to look at that and go "what's the bit
> on the end - is that a final release of Jetty 7 or not?!"
>
> :)
>
> Jan
>
>>
>> cheers
>
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