[Engine-devel] Jar versions in ovirt-engine

[Juan Hernandez]

On 04/18/2012 09:51 AM, Ofer Schreiber wrote:
> Ever wondered why the version of oVirt's first release is 3.0.0_0001?
> The answer is simple - We use ovirt-engine jar's version as our "main" release version.
> 
> Personally, I think the current versioning scheme is ugly. Actually, I can't name even one open-source project using "_" in it's version.
> 
> What can we do about it? We have couple of options:
> 1. Leave the engine alone, and use a separate versioning scheme (e.g - use just 3.1.0 as the main version for next release)
> 2. Remove "_" from engine jars
> 3. Do nothing.
> 
> I'd like to hear your thoughts, as well as the reasons to use such an unusual versioning scheme.
> 
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> Ofer Schreiber
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>From my point of view using the 0001 suffix in the names of the jar
files is not a big problem, but I agree that using it in the release
number is ugly, and it produces issues/discussions during packaging. I
vote for option #1: use 3.1.0 for the next main version.

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