From 8f804c29aa8471ccd6438ddca254092b8869ca52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:32:35 +0300 Subject: Bumped version number to 4.999.3alpha. It will become 5.0.0 once we have a stable release (won't be very soon). The version number is no longer related to version of LZMA SDK. Made some small Automake-related changes to toplevel Makefile.am and configure.ac. --- README | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 47d8b715..8d80b150 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -59,6 +59,35 @@ Supported platforms in C89 or C++. +Version numbering + + Starting from LZMA Utils 5, the version number of LZMA Utils has + absolutely nothing to do with the version number of LZMA SDK or + 7-Zip. The new version number format of LZMA Utils is X.Y.ZS: + + - X is the major version. When this is incremented, the library + API and ABI break. + + - Y is the minor version. It is incremented when new features are + added without breaking existing API or ABI. Even Y indicates + stable release and odd Y indicates unstable (alpha or beta + version). + + - Z is the revision. This has different meaning for stable and + unstable releases: + * Stable: Z is incremented when bugs get fixed without adding + any new features. + * Unstable: Z is just a counter. API or ABI of features added + in earlier unstable releases having the same X.Y may break. + + - S indicates stability of the release. It is missing from the + stable releases where Y is an even number. When Y is odd, S + is either "alpha" or "beta" to make it very clear that such + versions are not stable releases. The same X.Y.Z combination is + not used for more than one stability level i.e. after X.Y.Zalpha, + the next version can be X.Y.(Z+1)beta but not X.Y.Zbeta. + + configure options If you are not familiar with `configure' scripts, read the file -- cgit v1.2.3