[Haskell-cafe] Naming convention for version branches (Package versioning)

[Adam Bergmark]

I'd also recommend using a,b,c,d for the components instead of 0,1,2,3. Our
tool `bumper` uses numbers and i always have to try to remember that the
1st component is 0...



On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Alois Cochard <alois.cochard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Oleg,
>
> I was aware of similar tools thanks to Oliver Charles who pointed me to
> that great python tool: http://dzil.org/, seems like semantic-release
> have some interesting features as well!
>
> Thanks for the pointers, especially `hackage-diff` that I was not aware
> of. It will help me a lot to get an even more automated tool :-)
>
>
>
> On 19 May 2015 at 20:07, Oleg Grenrus <oleg.grenrus at iki.fi> wrote:
>
>> I don’t know if you are aware of
>> https://www.npmjs.com/package/semantic-release project
>>
>> It’s built for npm packages, but the same idea could be used for
>> Haskell/cabal too.
>>
>> The idea is to use SCM commit message to decide which version digit to
>> bump.
>> - you still have to annotate changes
>> - and if you try to cheat, but semantic-release runs old test suite again
>> new version of the library to detect obvious breaking changes
>>
>> Seems there is https://github.com/blitzcode/hackage-diff which can be
>> used to make the task of detecting API changes even easier.
>>
>> Hopefully these pointers let you make even greater tool!
>>
>> - Oleg
>>
>> On 19 May 2015, at 20:02, Alois Cochard <alois.cochard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am currently writing a tool to automate the release and version bump of
>> cabal projects.
>>
>> Currently you can call the tool by giving as argument the rank of the
>> branch you want to bump, for example given 0.0.0.0:
>>
>> - `cabal-release 0` bump to `1`
>> - `cabal-release 1` bump to `0.1`
>> - `cabal-release 2` bump to `0.0.1`
>> - `cabal-release 3` bump to `0.0.0.1`
>>
>> As we are not all robots (yet), I thought that in addition to this it
>> would be great if the user could give a human friendly name for the rank.
>>
>> For now, here is what I have for the different rank:
>> 0 == --major
>> 1 == --major-fix
>> 2 == --minor
>> 3 == --minor-fix
>>
>> I'm curious to know what you think of those names? any suggestions or
>> known established convention about that?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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