[R-pkg-devel] new version jumps in minor?

[Uwe Ligges]

CRAN does not object to these versioning, the notes are not the reason 
for rejection. Who told they are?

Best,
Uwe Ligges




On 05.11.2024 01:02, Josiah Parry wrote:
> Rolf,
> 
> The versioning method they’re using is referred to as CalVer
> https://calver.org/ (not as catchy as SemVer) and it is actually quite
> useful! With one look at the version you can get a good sense of it’s
> general release date.
> 
> Posit, for example, moved their professional products to use this
> versioning method a number of years ago.
> 
> I wouldn’t poopoo it so quickly!
> 
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 15:32 Rolf Turner <rolfturner using posteo.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 16:33:40 -0500
>> Toby Hocking <tdhock5 using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>> Version jumps in minor (submitted: 2024.11.2, existing: 2024.1.24)
>>
>> It looks to me that you are setting your version numbers in an
>> unorthodox manner, which could/will confuse the living Drambuie out of
>> people.
>>
>> I conjecture that you are setting your version number to represent the
>> relevant date.  E.g. 2024.11.2  means 2 November, 2024 and 2024.1.24
>> means 24 January 2024.
>>
>> In my understanding, the usual convention is for the version number to
>> be of the form l.m.n (or l.m-n) --- major.minor.patch (or
>> major.minor-patch).  The date should be specified in the *Date* field of
>> the DESCRIPTION file.
>>
>> It probably does not matter a hell of a lot.  "Writing R Extensions"
>> just says that the version number should be "a sequence of at least two
>> (and usually three) non-negative integers separated by single ‘.’ or
>> ‘-’ characters".
>>
>> However you might save yourself some "NOTEs" by adhering to the
>> "l.m.n" convention and incrementing the components sequentially.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
>>
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