[R-pkg-devel] DESCRIPTION file corrections for accepted package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 2024-10-28 12:56 p.m., Georgi Boshnakov wrote:
> Also, v1.1 = v1.1.0:
> 
>>   package_version("1.1.0") > package_version("1.1")
> [1] FALSE
>>   package_version("1.1.0") == package_version("1.1")
> [1] TRUE
> 
> If you adopt the 2-digit versions but decide to keep the possibility for 3-letter ones for minor fixes (bugs; fixing CRAN NOTES, minor bugs etc.), always use the four-digit development versions, e.g. 1.1.0.9000 after release of 1.1, to keep the possibility for 1.2 or 1.1.1 for the following release.

That's one strategy, but it's not the one I use.  I generally increment 
the 3rd digit whenever I make a bug fix or minor change to the source. 
I won't necessarily release every one of those, but they'll be available 
on Github, and if I get a bug report that has been dealt with, I can say 
things like "that was fixed in version 1.2.12.  You can get 1.2.14 from 
Github using this code: ...., or wait a couple of months until a later 
version is released on CRAN".  I dislike Hadley's x.y.z.9000 scheme.

Duncan Murdoch