[flac-dev] Tag flac as flac 1.2.1_git

Ralph Giles giles at thaumas.net
Thu Jan 17 21:38:45 PST 2013


On 13-01-17 7:26 PM, Brian Willoughby wrote:

> The flac front-end utility should have its own version number, on a  
> separate schedule from the flac library. I can see that we'd be able  
> to add features to the utility quite extensively without ever  
> changing the file format or the library.

It's not necessary to tie the format revision to the software version
number. Formats having their own version numbers is also a very common
convention. What's important is compatibility (or not) in behaviour.

In any case, it's up to Erik.

 -r



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