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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-06-10 00:21:06 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-06-10 00:21:06 +0200
commita5fb9151ee50d2c8c2cbc8ae4128007f6b05cddd (patch)
tree77d403c58c209c7c7108773dee8b3099d6188140
parentf348b2d3bc9093c818504ae3da3a2ca3dba79b5c (diff)
VERSIONS: now using markdown
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@@ -1,22 +1,18 @@
- _ _ ____ _
- ___| | | | _ \| |
- / __| | | | |_) | |
- | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
- \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
-
Version Numbers and Releases
+============================
Curl is not only curl. Curl is also libcurl. They're actually individually
versioned, but they mostly follow each other rather closely.
The version numbering is always built up using the same system:
- X.Y[.Z]
+ X.Y.Z
+
+ - X is main version number
+ - Y is release number
+ - Z is patch number
- Where
- X is main version number
- Y is release number
- Z is patch number
+## Bumping numbers
One of these numbers will get bumped in each new release. The numbers to the
right of a bumped number will be reset to zero. If Z is zero, it may not be
@@ -57,4 +53,4 @@ Version Numbers and Releases
release. It makes comparisons with greater than and less than work.
This number is also available as three separate defines:
- LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR, LIBCURL_VERSION_MINOR and LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH.
+ `LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR`, `LIBCURL_VERSION_MINOR` and `LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH`.