| Re: [AD] to prefix or not to prefix (sigh) |
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>This is IMHO the best proposal so far, except: why do we need this
>two-step thing (first prefix, then add more API-breaking stuff)? I think
>it seems easier if 5.0 is more like a WIP: As soon as the prefix thing
>works, we immediately introduce everything else that breaks the API,
>e.g. 8-bit palettes. I don't understand why anybody would want to
>upgrade to 5.0 but not to 5.2 if the only news in 5.0 is prefixing. The
>point is that we don't need to maintain yet another branch if we keep
>the time gap between 5.0 and 5.2 as short as possible, and regard 5.0
>more as a WIP than as a stable release.
I strongly disagree here. The prefixing is a large project, it will take
some time to iron out all the inconveniences. IMHO it is best to keep
the functionality between 4.0 and 5.0 as much the same as possible, to give
everybody a chance to port their code to 5.0 without unexpected side effects,
so we can build up a large testbed for the 5.? series as quickm as possible.
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Martijn Versteegh