Re: [wtp-dev] Please "leave room" in plugin version numbering, from 1.0

[Scott Peddle <peddle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

For reference, the Eclipse guidelines
for plugin versioning can be found at http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/documents/plugin-versioning.html.

This document also includes details
and examples of how to version plugins for service streams.  These
guidelines align with David's recommendations below.

Thanks for your time.

Scott Peddle, PMP®
Release Engineer for RxD
IBM Toronto Lab
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David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
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05/04/2006 05:23 PM

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Subject	[wtp-dev] Please "leave room" in plugin version numbering,        from 1.0 to 1.5 streams

There's too many plugins for me to track each one, but I've noticed a few
cases where some unnamed teams have had a 1.0.1 plugin for our 1.0.2 maintenance
release, 
and then for our 1.5.0 release have numbered it to be 1.0.2.  (Ok,
it was one of Tim's .. .I know he doesn't mind me picking on him :) 

So, thought I'd post this "public" reminder to be sure to "leave
room" in plug-in version numbering sequences when moving from one
major stream to another. 

This is a good example, since, even though highly unlikely, imagine if
we have a 1.0.3 maintenance release and Tim had to make a fix in that plugin,
there is no "room" left between 
1.0.1 and 1.0.2 to properly identify the plugin as "more than"
1.0.1, but less than what whatever is in the next major release ... so,
I'd recommend that next major release version be numbered 1.0.101 
just to "leave room" in the number range.  Of course, maybe
Tim has all this figured out and it really should be 1.0.2 because he is
never ever going to fix more bugs in that code :) 

... but, just wanted to remind everyone there is a whole new level of responsibility
in numbering our plugins correctly that we are not used to, so, please
review carefully, and let me know if you have specific questions or concerns.

Thanks much. 
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