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| author | Paramat <paramat@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-06-20 13:11:13 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-06-20 13:11:13 +0100 |
| commit | 525fa9145e0183c01ae05aeace967fbfe78f65a5 (patch) | |
| tree | a01e6ed8d044607a387ebe6d22b0b61e48951816 | |
| parent | 2e95ebd1816badb1913674c3b9ae028f2b08d308 (diff) | |
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README.md: Improve version scheme text (#7465)
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@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ Some can be changes in the key config dialog in the settings tab. Paths ----- - Locations: * bin - Compiled binaries @@ -110,7 +109,6 @@ Command-line options: Compiling --------- - ### Compiling on GNU/Linux #### Dependencies @@ -430,12 +428,15 @@ This is how we build Windows releases. Version scheme -------------- +We use major.minor.patch since 5.0.0-dev. Prior to that we used 0.major.minor. -Minetest partially follows semver (major.minor.patch). +- Major is incremented when the release contains breaking changes, all other +numbers are set to 0. +- Minor is incremented when the release contains new non-breaking features, +patch is set to 0. +- Patch is incremented when the release only contains bugfixes and very +minor/trivial features considered necessary. Since 5.0.0-dev and 0.4.17-dev, the dev notation refers to the next release, -ie: 5.0.0-dev is the development version leading to 5.0.0. - -Prior to that, we used oldversion-dev. - -Semver was adopted after 0.4.X series. Before that we used 0.major.minor scheme. +ie: 5.0.0-dev is the development version leading to 5.0.0. +Prior to that we used previous_version-dev. |