[Qt-creator] Switching to more "semantic" versioning scheme

[Dmitriy Purgin]

Hi,

have you considered a date-based versioning scheme? It would have
practically the same features as the proposed one, but additionally carries
the information how old a particular Qt Creator version is.

Cheers
Dmitriy

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:06 AM Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:

> We want to switch Qt Creator to semantic versioning, which means bumping
> the major version for each feature release, since we don’t keep binary
> compatibility between these.
>
> - Next release after 4.15 is Qt Creator 5.
> - Followed by Qt Creator 6 in December 2021.
> - Qt Creator 7 in spring 2022
> - and so on.
>
> The major version of Qt Creator doesn’t have any meaning at the moment, so
> we’d like to give it one. We almost always do incremental changes instead
> of major overhauls in one go, so basing the major version on some kind of
> feature change doesn’t make much sense. Bumping the major version for each
> feature release sounds more sensible because of this, and fits the semantic
> versioning scheme.
>
> Bump version to 5.0 beta1 (Id8510dd7) · Gerrit Code Review
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt-creator/qt-creator/+/339992
>
> changes the version used in the master branch.
>
> Br, Eike
>
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