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

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi Folks,

My apology for answering late, I was literally our of town without any
connection for the past two weeks and didn't have a chance to comment
earlier.

While 3D Slicer itself can easily be updated, there are projects that build
against 3D Slicer and/or dependent on 3D Slicer while supporting being
built against different of VTK. To avoid the burden of updating each one of
these projects, I am writing an email to the list to check if others would
support reverting back to version 9.0.0 ?

Thanks
Jc

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 9:54 AM David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> 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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