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diff --git a/docs/installing-solidity.rst b/docs/installing-solidity.rst index d7374717..345780d7 100644 --- a/docs/installing-solidity.rst +++ b/docs/installing-solidity.rst @@ -216,6 +216,24 @@ Alternatively, you can build for Windows on the command-line, like so: cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo +The version string in detail +============================ + +The Solidity version string contains four parts: +- the version number +- pre-release tag, usually set to ``develop.YYYY.MM.DD`` or ``nightly.YYYY.MM.DD`` +- commit in the format of ``commit.GITHASH`` +- platform has arbitrary number of items, containing details about the platform and compiler + +If there are local modifications, the commit will be postfixed with ``.mod``. + +These parts are combined as required by Semver, where the Solidity pre-release tag equals to the Semver pre-release +and the Solidity commit and platform combined make up the Semver build metadata. + +A relase example: ``0.4.8+commit.60cc1668.Emscripten.clang``. + +A pre-release example: ``0.4.9-nightly.2017.1.17+commit.6ecb4aa3.Emscripten.clang`` + Important information about versioning ====================================== |