RE: Xerces versioning policies: re version definition in XercesDe fs.hpp && Outstanding Bug 9154

[Robert Buck <rb...@mathworks.com>]

Alby and Tinny, (anyone else) please comment on who may define such a 
policy. I think Jesse's idea [below] is a good one. But it does need to be 
deliberate and well documented, as he suggests.

At 10:14 AM 7/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm not sure who should make such a decision. It doesn't feel weighty enough
>to require a vote of committers, but it's not totally trivial, either. I've
>reviewed the new XercesVersion.hpp file, and it's clear that if this change
>is made, it will affect *all* references to version numbers from here on in,
>not just _XERCES_VERSION.

Anybody else listening in to this conversation... Who would make this 
decision? Alby, Tinny?


>If it's desirable to allow for more than 10 minor versions and/or revisions,
>but there's reason to leave the string constants in their current minimal
>form, I think we could accommodate that. We'd leave the base constants
>(XERCES_VERSION_...) as they are, and continue to concatenate them to
>produce derived string constants, but use math to transform them into the
>numeric form. For instance, if we want to allow two digits for minor
>versions and revisions, we could do something like:
>
>#define _XERCES_VERSION (XERCES_VERSION_MAJOR * 10000 + XERCES_VERSION_MINOR
>* 100 + XERCES_VERSION_REVISION)

Hey, if it works. I think this is a fine idea.


>(I'm sure I'll be put on notice if this is a lame idea.)
>
>For what it's worth, I doesn't matter to me whether there's one digit or
>two, or what format the string constants have. I do, however, think it's
>important that the decision and its rationale be recorded in
>XercesVersion.hpp, so it will be understood by those who follow.

Agreed.


>I agree that there's no need to stipulate a number of digits in the major
>version number.
>
>-jesse-
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert Buck [mailto:rbuck@mathworks.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:11 AM
>To: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org
>Subject: Xerces versioning policies: re version definition in
>XercesDefs.hpp && Outstanding Bug 9154
>
>
>Point well taken. Who are the right people to help decide such a policy?
>
>I think we could get by simply by stating that minor version numbers and
>revision numbers MUST have two digits in the version header file. Right?
>The requirement is not necessary , I think, for major version numbers.
>
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