Versioning with Semver

  • Resolved ollycross

    (@ollycross)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    Please can you version your plugin using Semantic Versioning?

    I install this plugin via Composer through WPackagist and the non-standard version format used means that I have to adjust the my composer.json each time the plugin exists, rather than letting it auto-update until the next major release.

    Thank you

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by ollycross.
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  • Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    I wish I could but it’s not possible. Why? Because the date version is treated as a regular number. For example this version number:

    20200407

    ..is treated as 20,200,407, which is a very large number.

    So now what am I supposed to do. Change that to version 1.0? 2.0? 1000.0? Doing so would cause a lot of breakage with all sorts of things including automatic and one-click updates.

    Thread Starter ollycross

    (@ollycross)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Ah yeah I see your point, fair enough. Oh well, thank you for coming back to me. Keep up the good work!

    v20200407.0.0 🙂

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