[GenABEL-dev] OmicABEL version number

[Yurii Aulchenko]

I am in favour of something like 0.8-0

would not call it 1.0-0 as it was not extensively used yet; would not call 0.1-0 because this looks “too young” - which is not the case :)

Yurii


> On 15 Jan 2015, at 10:39, Diego Fabregat <fabregat at aices.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> 
> Alright, so where do I start form? 0.1.0? 1.0.0?
> 
> On 01/14/2015 04:31 PM, L.C. Karssen wrote:
>> Hi Diego, Yurii, others,
>> 
>> On 14-01-15 15:24, Yurii Aulchenko wrote:
>>>> On 14 Jan 2015, at 15:13, Diego Fabregat
>>>> <fabregat at aices.rwth-aachen.de <mailto:fabregat at aices.rwth-aachen.de> <mailto:fabregat at aices.rwth-aachen.de> <mailto:fabregat at aices.rwth-aachen.de>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Lennart,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm looking into this. What should I use for versioning? a.b.c where
>>>> a = major
>>>> b = minor
>>>> c = bug-fixes
>>>> ?
>> Yes, that's what I do with ProbABEL and other package I maintain (note
>> that for R packages the form a.b-c is more common).
>> 
>>> true, complying with R quasi-standars. c = odd = version in work; c =
>>> even = “release”
>> I'm not sure about the even/odd thing. At least I don't use it in that
>> way. As far as I know, the "Writing R Extensions" document doesn't
>> mention this.
>> 
>>> Yurii
>>> 
>>>> This seems in line with other genabel packages. Am I right?
>>>> 
>>>> Also, how do you deal with the copyright line
>>>> 
>>>> "Copyright (C) 2009--2014 ..."
>>>> 
>>>> in every source file? Do you simply edit (sed?) all of them every new
>>>> year?
>> Good point! That didn't cross my mind yet. I think using sed is the
>> easiest.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Some background: the GPL Howto (https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html>)
>> states the following:
>>      "The copyright notice should include the year in which you
>>       finished preparing the release (...)"
>> and
>>      "For software with several releases over multiple years, it's okay
>>       to use a range (“2008-2010”) instead of listing individual years
>>       (...) if and only if every year in the range, inclusive, really
>>       is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually; and
>>       you make an explicit statement in your documentation about this
>>       usage."
>> 
>> So ProbABEL doesn't follow this to the letter, but I guess it's good enough.
>> 
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Lennart.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> On 01/13/2015 10:18 AM, L.C. Karssen wrote:
>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was just looking at the OmicABEL page on www.genabel.org <http://www.genabel.org/> when it
>>>>> struck me that OmicABEL doesn't seem to have a version number. I also
>>>>> did a quick grep in the code and couldn't find a version/release number
>>>>> there either. Maybe I somehow missed it, but if not, I think we really
>>>>> should add a version number to each release. Having a version number is
>>>>> good for various reasons like packaging/upgrading, marketing
>>>>> (announcements), reproducible research, etc.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lennart.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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