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

[Bill Lorensen]

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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