Re: [AD] CVS version increase

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob <ohannessian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Stepan Roh wrote:
> > 
> > In case that 3.9.35 WIP is real (very funny Peter :-) ) which probably is
> > because it's tagged in CVS, CVS version should be increased to 3.9.36.

Yeah, I kept forgetting.  It's done now.

> Speaking of versions, could we use the Linux Kernel scheme for version
> numbers? Something like odd = CVS, even = WIP releases?

I was going to suggest this, but after 4.0.

> This would cut down on the DLL linking problems (when you have multiple
> versions of 3.9.34 for example). That is, unless someone proposes to add
> version information (and checking) in the DLL.

People really should not be using CVS versions for their releases.
Once a stable branch is out, I hope people will be able to use that
for six months or more at a time.  Only bug fixes would be applied
to the stable branch, and incompatible changes would go into the
development branch.

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