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[Bioc-devel] svn and package version numbers

6 messages · Wolfgang Huber, Martin Morgan, Kasper Daniel Hansen +1 more

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Hi All,

just a reminder that it is good practice to bump up the package version when you commit a change to a package's source, even if you consider it 'trivial'. Version numbers are free, while the confusion ensuing from there being different versions of the software with ostensibly the same version can waste a great deal of someone's time.

Dan / Bioc-Core team: would it be good to mention this somewhere on http://bioconductor.org/developers/source-control ?

Best wishes
	Wolfgang
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On 06/30/2013 03:32 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
It's more a safety measure -- if the developer FORGETS to bump, then at least we 
are not distributing two implementations under the same version number.

As Wolfgang says, version numbers are free so no need to hold back on their use.

Martin