[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] Discussion: OK to change VTK's version number from 9.0 to 8.2?

[David E DeMarle]

Thanks for the input everyone.

It seems that noone objects to changing master's name off of 9.0, so I will
go ahead and finish up the merge request
<https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/4700> to reset it to
8.2.0 today.

I'll defer the numbering scheme for subsequent releases for a little while.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
Principal Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 9:27 AM Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That would work.
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 6:05 AM Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 20:44:22 -0700, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>> > I mean a # that increments nightly. Resets to 0 when a the revision
>> > number changes.
>> >
>> > Major.Minor.Patch.Build
>> >
>> > Right now if a new class is added you there is no way to know from the
>> > version when it was added.
>> >
>> > I think we used to do this in vtk...
>>
>> CMake does this, but it is not just a number that resets to 0, but a
>> datestamp:
>>
>>
>> https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/commit/8bb0e09e38d3ab75198b1cd9746bfa7a7b80ff94
>>
>> It is used *as* the patch number, not a fourth component. This means
>> that as soon as we branch and make M.N.0, `master` is already
>> M.N.2018MMDD and "bigger".
>>
>> --Ben
>>
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