Recommended version number scheme for SDK?

[riezebosch]

For maintainting the dotnetcore-chocolateypackages I want to add 3.0-preview but I'm not sure what version for the SDK currently is recommended.

The SDK version from the releases.json is not semver and the latest-release tend to be aligned with the runtime and not the SDK.

Should I be using the 3.0-preview2 for now and switch to runtime & sdk specific versions when out of preview? Or is the latest-release version the way forward and encapsulates this underlying versions?

Any advice on this?

[leecow]

We're in the process of standing up release branches which would make sense for you to follow. For the sdk, picking up the latest from release/3.0.1xx should do the trick.

@livarcocc to confirm.

[riezebosch]

Got it. But what about the aspnetcore-runtime and windows-hosting? Should it be 3.0.0-preview2? Because there are already multiple 3.0.0-preview releases that only differ in last part (which doesn't fit into semver).

[leecow]

All components should be picking up the *-preview{n}-{buildnumber} scheme.

[riezebosch]

But the {buildnumber} part is breaking semver and the *-preview part seems not unique.

[karelz]

Why is the {buildnumber} part breaking semver? It seems complaint to me according to: https://semver.org/#spec-item-9

That said, I don't think we claimed we follow semver, although it would be nice ...

[riezebosch]

My point is that translating the version from the releases.json into something that is unique and supported by chocolatey is or might be a problem. It seems to work now for creating packages but I'm not sure yet if it can be published in that format.

 dotnetcore-sdk.3.0.100-preview-010184.nupkg

[leecow]

I would think that's OK (no "." in the prerelease string)?

We're in the process of finishing up Preview 3 (hopefully out Tuesday) and the SDK version will look like 3.0.100-preview3-010402 (not finale, just an example from the current build).

[riezebosch]

Okay, it looks like it's possible: https://chocolatey.org/packages/dotnetcore-runtime.install/3.0.0-preview-27324-5 😄