Drop the leading 0. in version numbers #7735

issue achow101 opened this issue on March 23, 2016
  1. achow101 commented at 1:04 AM on March 23, 2016: member

    Why don't we just drop the leading 0. in version numbers? AFAICT that field will never be used anyways. The versions would still be the same thing and have the same meaning, just that they wouldn't have the 0. in front of it.

  2. luke-jr commented at 2:19 AM on March 23, 2016: member

    It will be used when we reach 1.0. There's still a long way to go before we get there.

  3. achow101 commented at 2:36 AM on March 23, 2016: member

    well based on this email: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-October/011323.html (and some of the stuff that follows), it looks like Bitcoin Core will never reach 1.0.

  4. laanwj commented at 7:49 AM on March 23, 2016: member

    Like other open source software, we use a standard MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH versioning scheme. Not worth the bother to change this.

    [But I guess for marketing reasons you can freely drop the 0. Just don't expect changes in the software for this.]

  5. laanwj closed this on Mar 23, 2016

  6. laanwj reopened this on Mar 23, 2016

  7. laanwj added the label Brainstorming on Mar 23, 2016
  8. laanwj closed this on Jun 22, 2016

  9. MarcoFalke commented at 11:33 AM on June 22, 2016: member

    @achow101 Please find further information on https://bitcoincore.org/en/lifecycle/#versioning

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