From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-07-01T06:51:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] arrayfields-3.0.0

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 06:39:04AM +0900, Jim Weirich wrote:
> > so the gem versioning concept is similar to the libtool concept
> >
> >    interface.implementation.age
> >
> > minus the age bit - and a change in interface is expected to break code
> > whereas a change in impl, in theory, should not?
> 
> Close.
> 
> The version triplet major.minor.build generally indicates:
[...]

That's the versioning scheme proposed originally by Eivind Eklund; you
said on the ML it would be the recommended system for use with RubyGems,
but it's quite hard to get to its description from the developer's guide
(2 hops). Would it be possible to show it more prominently?

> This is pretty sketchy, I know.  I will try to write up a more complete
> description tonight when I get home.

You could reuse the original description from 
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubygems-developers/2004-April/000294.html
("Proposed version format B").


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