Re: version tags

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 10:59 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

Ross Paterson wrote:

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What are tags for? Should we have them at all?

hsgnutls-0.2.3-barracuda hsgnutls-0.2.3.1-barracuda regex-tdfa-0.92-ghc-68-build-fix

I'm guessing that the tag generally indicates a specific set of bugfixes over the original version? And thus does not indicate API changes? So what does the Package Versioning Policy have to say about bugfix-only releases?

a.b.c.(d+1) Actually the policy says it only defines the meaning of the first 3 components but the implication is that bumping any later version is a change that does not change the api. So you can use an increasing build number or a date or whatever you like. Duncan