[MPlayer-dev-eng] codecs.conf versioning

[Alex Beregszaszi]

<20020520135514.A24731 at lumen>; from joey at yunamusic.com on Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:55:14PM -0500
> Hello, 
> 
> On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:30:18AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What about adding a version number to the codecs.conf file, and check
> > for this number in mplayer at the startup?
> > it shouldn't require up-to-minute codecs.conf, but we could increase the
> > version number at incompatible changes (when the new version is REQUIRED
> > to work)
> > 
> > something like:
> > version 123
> > should be ok, right?
> 
> > the only question is: what numbering sheme to be used?
> > we could use a counter, starting from 1 and increasing every time when
> > a big change is done, or use something like mplayer version number +
> > subversion? like 0.90-3 ? later may look better but hard to parse and handle.
> 
> What about a format like YYYYMMDD for the sake of CVS versions?
I prefer YYYYMMDDN - N stands for number/version like in bind, to support
more breaking changes in a day - it's possible by mplayer (pre)releases ;)

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alex