Version naming suggestion

[JasonW]

On 10 October 2011 01:25, Nigel Taylor <njtaylor at asterisk.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/09/11 17:13, bat guano wrote:

>> I think that would be a good feature.
>> Some programs (such as FFmpeg-git) show the 'commit'.


> Releases should be made regardless of the windows installer, then should
> windows fall behind and window users have to resort to getting the
> get_iplayer script. The version would have been updated for release to
> other platforms allowing identification by version number.

But this isn't about releases (at least in my mind) - hence the
suggestion to add the commit date to the version number in git - so a
release would have no commit date, interim patched versions would.

Example the next release would be 2.81, the patch beyond that would be
2.81.111225 (if it's committed on Christmas Day)

Anyway - discussion is good - maybe I'm the only one that wants an
even quicker way of checking I have the latest version of the script
:-)