From 525fa9145e0183c01ae05aeace967fbfe78f65a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paramat Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:11:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: Improve version scheme text (#7465) --- README.md | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ebfad24be..8d9f4f0af 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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. -- 2.25.1