On 02/12/2014 11:21 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>   package-major.minor.micro-rel.arch.(compression
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/#naming
> 
>  package-major.minor[.micro]-qualifier.arch.(compression)
> 
> Good example: https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossProjectVersioning
> 
> Any reference to time is meaningless. See
> http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/77637/yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm-vs-major-minor-revision,
> comment 12:
> 
>  [YYYY].[MM].[DD].[hh][mm] has no meaning. It's just a coincidental binding
> between a moment in time and a release

Another good page for consideration:

http://semver.org/

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.