Syncthing-android: version number of syncthing-android has non-obvious relationship to syncthing version

[gdt]

I use syncthing on android (from f-droid) and on NetBSD and OS X (from pkgsrc). Given that syncthing breaks protocol compatibility across major releases, this means that I have to upgrade everything at once. With syncthing proper, it's clear that 0.12.19 to 0.13.2 is a protocol change. In syncthing-android, going from 0.7.17 to 0.7.18 breaks protocol compatibility, if I read the commit logs correctly. I realize that most of the android code may not have changed, but it would be really nice to somehow change the version number in a louder way. One approach would be to just move to 0.8 for 0.13 (or 0.14 at this point).

[Nutomic]

Syncthing and syncthing-android are seperate projects. I don't think it's feasible to sync the releases, because it would be a lot of extra effort.

But I see your point about breaking changes. I think it would be okay to increase the minor version in that case (so 0.7 to 0.8).

[capi]

In my opinion it would make sense to mirror the major.minor version of the syncthing binary we use, e.g. now 0.13.x, where as x is unrelated to the syncthing binary.

[AudriusButkevicius]

Or 0.8.1.001302

[gdt]

Understood about separate projects and that synchronized releases would be too hard. I really only wanted to ask that when I saw a syncthing-android update that changes the syncthing branch (and hence is not protocol compatible) that it be readily apparent.

[Nutomic]

@capi Yeah that would make sense.

@AudriusButkevicius Looks way too complicated imo.

[gdt]

I think this can be closed now that the new release was labeled 0.8.0. Thanks for listening and adjusting the versioning scheme