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diff --git a/docs/maintainers/manifest-files.md b/docs/maintainers/manifest-files.md index 3e79aa08a..f90d6ccbe 100644 --- a/docs/maintainers/manifest-files.md +++ b/docs/maintainers/manifest-files.md @@ -69,9 +69,18 @@ numbers, and hyphens, and it must not begin nor end with a hyphen. ### Version fields -The library version. There is currently only one kind of version, a `"version-string"` - -however, more version kinds will be added later. Additionally, -`"port-version"` is used to differentiate between port changes that don't change the underlying library version. +Currently there are different fields for special versioning. Namely: + +Manifest property | Versioning scheme +------------------|------------------------------------ +`version` | For dot-separated numeric versions +`version-semver` | For SemVer compliant versions +`version-date` | For dates in the format YYYY-MM-DD +`version-string` | For arbitrary strings + +See https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/blob/master/docs/specifications/versioning.md#22-package-versions for more details. + +Additionally, `"port-version"` is used to differentiate between port changes that don't change the underlying library version. #### `"version-string"` |