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Posted to dev@depot.apache.org by Nick Chalko <ni...@chalko.com> on 2004/06/20 21:12:03 UTC

version was:(Avalon & Depot)

Niclas Hedhman wrote:

>
>Short notice on versioning;
>We have more or less concluded that 'version strings' now in use are 
>malicious. They mix concerns too much and should probably not be used in the 
>way it is (indicating buildnumber, compatibility, development stage et 
>cetera). They should be seen as opaque strings and a separate system should 
>be made to express the orthogonal concerns of such version.
>
>  
>

That is why we have a separate project just for version concerns.

See
http://incubator.apache.org/depot/version/