[Insight-developers] ITK version numbers

[Brad King]

On 12/19/2011 4:03 PM, Matt McCormick wrote:
> As I understand it, if we have dates in the patch version field, we
> cannot also have add minor indicating a non-release, and still have
> meaningful version comparisons.

We can.  VTK does it.  Bill L. is using it in the VTK examples.

Version number updates will look like this (time goes up):

  o 4.3.20120601
  |
  o 4.2.0
  |
  o 4.1.20120601
  |
  .
  . o 4.0.1
  . |
  | |
  o | 4.1.20111219
  | |
  |/
  o 4.0.0

-Brad