<div><span style="color: rgb(160, 160, 168); ">On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 5:35 AM, a.cavallo@cavallinux.eu wrote:</span></div>
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<span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Ideally it would be something that connects to the source revision number (as in</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">subversion) or the integral id or even a timestamp (that's what an exported</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">version must be).</div></span>
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Timestamp or reversion number is not overall useful number for a version and</div><div>here's why: Django (for example) maintains older versions for a set period of time,</div><div>If you do it via timestamps than 1.1.1 which happens to be released after 1.2.0 (because</div><div>of a security issue or glaring bug) will be considered "newer". Handwaving the problem</div><div>away with a source revision number or timestamp ignores a fundamental property</div><div>of a version.</div>