<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1ep4j5tjp6cd2774hrx96vh845dwqzhe3z7n3a2a9uxdm2dajqpgscm3rel</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1ep4j5tjp6cd2774hrx96vh845dwqzhe3z7n3a2a9uxdm2dajqpgscm3rel</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2011-11-02&#xA;🗒️ Summary of this message: The proposal is to let clients define the sub_version_num field as they wish, with a guideline suggestion to follow the IDENTIFIER VERSION format.&#xA;📝 Original message:Point taken.&#xA;&#xA;About the sub_version_num though. I prefer to let the field by defined clients however they wish, with just a guideline suggestion that IDENTIFIER VERSION is a format they should follow.&#xA;&#xA;The idea being that different projects would have different release scheduling schemes and it&#39;d be restrictive to lock people into the popular major.minor system.&#xA;&#xA;So for the current bitcoin to find out the version number of other clients (if it was needed), it would have to parse the number from the string:&#xA;&#xA;&#34;Satoshi 0.5&#34;&#xA;&#xA;Although there would be little reason for this with a sane protocol versioning scheme.&#xA;&#xA;If we&#39;re agreed then I&#39;ll start on that BIP.&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;________________________________&#xA;From: Gavin Andresen &lt;gavinandresen at gmail.com&gt;&#xA;To: Amir Taaki &lt;zgenjix at yahoo.com&gt;&#xA;Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 9:34 PM&#xA;Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers&#xA;&#xA;Good idea.&#xA;&#xA;Sounds perfect for a BIP....&#xA;&#xA;On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Amir Taaki &lt;zgenjix at yahoo.com&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; Hey,&#xA;&gt; Can we lock the version numbers to be the protocol version (which changes&#xA;&gt; rarely) and instead use the sub_version_num field + revision number for&#xA;&gt; individual builds?&#xA;&#xA;-- &#xA;--&#xA;Gavin Andresen&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20111102/92391645/attachment.html&gt;</html></oembed>