New version string about contiki-ng HOT 5 CLOSED

I think we probably should. This also reminds me a comment by Michael Richardson about Contiki not having a clear version.h. Perhaps something to think about adding too, and then the Makefile can append the git version if built from within a git repo?

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Yes, perhaps a header file that has at least clear definitions of major/minor version integers, and a git commit version can indeed be set through the Makefile when applicable. Contiki has core/contiki-version.h with only a version string definition, but this file was removed from Contiki-NG early on.

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After a chat with @g-oikonomou and @joakimeriksson, we propose to use as version "NG-4.0" for the release.

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I looked a bit into this. I vote for Contiki-NG-4.x-3638-g1a917a.
A question is how do we git tag master at the release? 4.x or NG-4.x? This affects how we produce the string.

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done in #117

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