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Brad King authored
Historically CMake used three version components for the feature level. We released new features while incrementing only the third version component. Since commit v2.8.2~105^2~4 (New version scheme to support branchy workflow, 2010-04-23) we used the fourth version component for bug-fix releases and the development date: <major>.<minor>.<patch>[.<tweak>][-rc<n>] = Release <major>.<minor>.<patch>.<date>[-<id>] = Development This solidified use of three components for the feature level, and was necessary to continue releasing 2.x versions because: * Some existing projects performed floating-point comparisons of ${CMAKE_MAJOR_VERSION}.${CMAKE_MINOR_VERSION} to 2.x numbers so ``x`` could never be higher than 9. * Version 2.9.<date> was used briefly in post-2.8.0 development in CVS prior to the transition to Git, so using it in releases may have caused confusion. Now that we are moving to 3.x versions, these two restriction...
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