From 592c692bceb4cbf14446ad7eff949a475ab63251 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Beregszaszi Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:01:11 +0000 Subject: Mention how our version maps to Semver --- docs/installing-solidity.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/installing-solidity.rst b/docs/installing-solidity.rst index 2a1f5012..345780d7 100644 --- a/docs/installing-solidity.rst +++ b/docs/installing-solidity.rst @@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ The Solidity version string contains four parts: 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`` -- cgit v1.2.3