Question

Say I am the developler of a project named... libgeorge!

How am I supposed to name my project versions and latest builds?

Should it be libgeorge-0.1.3.tar.gz or libgeorge0.1.3.tar.gz or libgeorge-20120616.tar.gz or something?

Answer 1

I guess I would settle for libgeorge-0.1.3.tar.gz since lua does it like that: http://www.lua.org/ftp/

How do I come up with the version numbers, though? Or should I use dates instead like libgeorge-20120616.tar.gz?

Answer 2

dates would be a problem though if libgeorge's source is changed many times a day.

Answer 3

what i do when i make different versions of my programs i name them like EmpMgtSys.v1.1

Answer 4

thank you

Answer 5

next version i made was named as EmpMgtSys.v1.2(dd/mm/yyyy)

Answer 6

Also, how do I make my tarballs always extract into a new folder in the current working directory? For example, untarring libgeorge-0.1.3.tar.gz will create libgeorge-0.1.3/ in the current directory.

I don't know how to do this, so people who untar my stuff could lose lots of work and mess up their stuff, especially if they tar xvf libgeorge*tar* in their home directory :(

Answer 7

If you want the tar to extract into a new folder, you need to tar the actual folder instead of its contents. So, let's say your working directory is /home/george/work and below that you have libgeorge - then I'd advise making a version specific copy of libgeorge named "libgeorge-0.1.3" then running...

tar cxf libgeorge-0.1.3.tar.gz libgeorge-0.1.3

Then the actual folder will get tarred instead of just it's contents.

With regard to the actual version number, the choice is yours. Typically, the first number represents a major release with significant (potentially backward-incompatible) changes. The second number typically represents new features that are minor and usually backward compatible, while the third number is usually used for bugfix and patch releases.

This is just a classic scheme. You can use whatever scheme you want.