[CP2K:8217] DATA_DIR (was: Release of CP2K version 4.1)

[Ole Schütt]

Hi Michael,

our new versioning scheme was inspired by the one recently adopted by 
gcc:

https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html

-Ole

On 2016-10-06 10:36, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 10:08:28AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' 
> Mierzejewski wrote:
>> Hi, Matthias.
>> 
>> On Thursday, 06 October 2016 at 08:21, Krack Matthias (PSI) wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:28:43AM -0700, Matthias Krack wrote:
>> >> > we are pleased to announce the release of the CP2K version 4.1
>> >> > (October 5, 2016) <http://www.cp2k.org/news>.
>> >>
>> >> Any reason it's 4.1 and not 4.0?
>> >
>> > The developer team has agreed to change the numbering scheme slighlty
>> > from now on. 4.0 has been the previous CP2K development version, 4.1
>> > is the current CP2K release version, 5.0 is now the current development
>> > (trunk) version, and the next release version will be 5.1 most likely.
>> > That is to prevent any confusion concerning development and release
>> > versions in the future.
>> 
>> That's actually more confusing. The usual practice is to use odd
>> numbers for development versions and even for stable/release versions.
> 
> It also makes it look a bit like 4.1 is a brown-paper-bag release, i.e.
> you tagged 4.0 but immediately found a bug so had to release 4.1.  At
> least for the people not following closely.
> 
> That said, users will just get used to it.
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
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