[Insight-developers] ITK version numbers

[Brad King]

On 12/19/2011 4:45 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
> With long release cycles like VTK I think the date is important.
>
> This is certainly true with the wiki examples where we want to have
> the examples work for released and non-released versions. I don't see
> the harm in having a patch based on date for the odd versions between
> releases. For even number releases, the patch number should increment
> from 0.

Clearly we need a granular version number during development cycles.

What David is saying is that it should not be based on a daily commit.
He and I have been brainstorming ways to get rid of it from CMake.
I discussed some of the problems in other responses in this thread.

-Brad