[wix-devs] v4 extension versioning

[Rob Mensching]

1. - Are you going to use v5 in the future product names?

There will be a WiX Toolset v5 with breaking changes. Yes.

2. - Does that mean v5 will be 2.0.0.0? Or are you going to reset again to 1.0.0.0?

Presumably it'd start again at v1.0.0.

3. - How do you tell v4 binaries from v5 binaries?

That's what this is all about. Getting a consistent naming scheme from here out since v3 naming may be too limited.

4. - How do you really programatically tell if you're using a v3 vs v4 binary?

V3 WixExensions will not load by v4 and vice versa. That's why we need to get the name right because they will not work correctly at all.


-----Original Message-----
From: wix-devs <wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of Russell Haley via wix-devs
Sent: Monday, January 7, 2019 9:23 PM
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Cc: Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [wix-devs] v4 extension versioning

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 8:10 PM Sean Hall via wix-devs < wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> I would think we would only apply the v4 naming to the ones we would 
> consider adding breaking changes to.
>
Hi,

New to the list and will probably just be popping in and out. The last company I worked at used a funny revisioning scheme because they were primarily a hardware company. They pressed software into the same mold and it caused nothing but problems.
Perhaps try answering a couple of questions:
- Are you going to use v5 in the future product names?
- Does that mean v5 will be 2.0.0.0? Or are you going to reset again to 1.0.0.0?
- How do you tell v4 binaries from v5 binaries?
- How do you really programatically tell if you're using a v3 vs v4 binary?

Personally, I think seeing higher revision numbers is a good thing.
v4.0.0.0 is a pretty good mark if you ask me. But you didn't, so feel free to ignore me. :)

Cheers and thanks for the great product.

Russ