Versioned Releases / Backwards compatibility

[fnatter@…]

hi,

thanks for JMapViewer, we're happily using it in the Freeplane project :-)

I am also involved in creating Debian packages for Freeplane and JMapViewer,
and our concern is:
Could you consider making JMapViewer releases with version numbers? That
would make the Debian packaging easier / more meaningful. Also, we could
use version gaps to express that backwards compatibility could be broken.

That would be important for the Freeplane package (and others): When a
Debian packager sees that JMapViewer was updated from say 1.0 to 2.0 (and
he/she finds out after correspondence with you that it is not
backwards-compatible) then he/she can create a new "jmapviewer2" package
that does not interfere with the current "jmapviewer" that is used by
Freeplane.

Thanks!

Best Regards,
Felix