Re: [AD] moving 4.3 branch to 4.9

[Victor <vwss1984@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, now makes sense. I had (mis)understand something very different.

Ass: Victor

--- Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:18 -0300, Victor wrote:
> > We already have some confusion. Version reuse will indeed confuse
> > everyone even more. Let's say we get a bug report and the user says
> > it's version is 4.3.0. So someone reply: "Which 4.3.0 version?"
> This
> > could be confusing even for Allegro developers.
> > It is much better to skip some version numbers rather than reusing
> > them.
> > If it is not wrong to skip from 4.3.x to 4.9.x. So why should we
> reuse
> > version numbers?
> > By the way skipping to 4.3.5 and start reuse 4.3.0 is still much
> worse,
> > as it is possible that 4.3.0 goes to 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4 and
> get
> > another 4.3.5. Really a bad idea. No one will know what the version
> > number means simply because it will not mean anything more! That is
> > light-years more confusing than skipping to 4.9.x, and completely
> > useless.
> > 
> > I thought that the Java version 1.4.2 to 5.0==1.5.0 was the most
> stupid
> > and confusing numbering scheme i ever saw. But please, be careful
> to
> > not create anything even worse!
> > 
> 
> Here's all the versions, including what Matthew said, I don't think
> it's
> confusing:
> 
> 4.0.x... this was stable versions some years ago
> 4.1.x... this was WIP versions some years ago
> 
> 4.2.0 this was the first stable 4.2.x version
> 4.2.1 the current stable version
> 
> [4.3.0 misnamed, should have been 4.9.0]
> [4.3.1 misnamed, should have been 4.9.1]
> [4.3.2 skipped]
> [4.4.4 skipped]
> 4.3.5 next WIP version
> 4.3.6 next WIP after that
> 4.3.x ... possibly other WIPs
> 
> 4.4.0 this will be the first stable version resulting from 4.3.x WIP
> 4.4.1 first bug fix releases
> 4.4.x ... maybe more to follow
> 
> [4.9.0 never existed, was 4.3.0 instead]
> [4.9.1 never existed, was 4.3.1 instead]
> 4.9.2 WIP version for the next major allegro
> 4.9.3 WIP after that
> 4.9.x... hopefully lots of WIPs soon
> 
> 5.0.0 Stable release from 4.9.x branch, once we get the minimum API
>       stable.
> 
> -- 
> Elias Pschernig
> 
> 
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