Originally Posted by Vaest
an r followed by numbers (see regex above) should in all cases be a revision and numbers followed by r or beta, etc should be a beta.
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Sure, as soon as you can fix all of the authors mentality, done.
Originally Posted by Vaest
"Delta 4" is a stupid way to number/version an addon. To the addon author: Make Delta 4 be the code name, but internally version it something real (think Windows Vista being 6, and Windows 7 being 6.1 internally. No program could ever interpret 7 as newer than "vista", but 6.1 < 7 is easy)
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Fun fact: there are numerous applications out there that check the windows major/minor numbers, to ensure that major >= 5 && minor >= 1 to ensure that they are at least running Windows XP, which promptly broke with Vista when the minor went to 0.
So, no, 6.1 < 7 is not as easy as one would think. This honestly happened to quite a few applications when Vista launched. In short, it is never as simple as it seems.
And, fwiw, I kinda like "Delta 4."
Originally Posted by Vaest
Offering the use of major.minor.etc, revisions, and dates is sufficient in my opinion. I do not expect it to work with everything, but the 5-10% (give or take) of authors who want to be cute or don't know how to version something correctly will (should) quickly correct it to make their addons update correctly.
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I'm pretty sure the
plan is to provide version and date* when the addon was uploaded, which would help quite a bit.
* and if it wasn't before, it is now!