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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2011-02-21 16:09:23 -0500
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-
- HOW TOR VERSION NUMBERS WORK
-
-1. The Old Way
-
- Before 0.1.0, versions were of the format:
- MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO(status(PATCHLEVEL))?(-cvs)?
- where MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO, and PATCHLEVEL are numbers, status is one
- of "pre" (for an alpha release), "rc" (for a release candidate), or
- "." for a release. As a special case, "a.b.c" was equivalent to
- "a.b.c.0". We compare the elements in order (major, minor, micro,
- status, patchlevel, cvs), with "cvs" preceding non-cvs.
-
- We would start each development branch with a final version in mind:
- say, "0.0.8". Our first pre-release would be "0.0.8pre1", followed by
- (for example) "0.0.8pre2-cvs", "0.0.8pre2", "0.0.8pre3-cvs",
- "0.0.8rc1", "0.0.8rc2-cvs", and "0.0.8rc2". Finally, we'd release
- 0.0.8. The stable CVS branch would then be versioned "0.0.8.1-cvs",
- and any eventual bugfix release would be "0.0.8.1".
-
-2. The New Way
-
- After 0.1.0, versions are of the format:
- MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO(.PATCHLEVEL)(-status_tag)
- The stuff in parentheses is optional. As before, MAJOR, MINOR, MICRO,
- and PATCHLEVEL are numbers, with an absent number equivalent to 0.
- All versions should be distinguishable purely by those four
- numbers. The status tag is purely informational, and lets you know how
- stable we think the release is: "alpha" is pretty unstable; "rc" is a
- release candidate; and no tag at all means that we have a final
- release. If the tag ends with "-cvs" or "-dev", you're looking at a
- development snapshot that came after a given release. If we *do*
- encounter two versions that differ only by status tag, we compare them
- lexically.
-
- Now, we start each development branch with (say) 0.1.1.1-alpha. The
- patchlevel increments consistently as the status tag changes, for
- example, as in: 0.1.1.2-alpha, 0.1.1.3-alpha, 0.1.1.4-rc, 0.1.1.5-rc.
- Eventually, we release 0.1.1.6. The next patch release is 0.1.1.7.
-
- Between these releases, CVS is versioned with a -cvs tag: after
- 0.1.1.1-alpha comes 0.1.1.1-alpha-cvs, and so on. But starting with
- 0.1.2.1-alpha-dev, we switched to SVN and started using the "-dev"
- suffix instead of the "-cvs" suffix.