Re: [AD] Feature-freeze?

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On March 25, 2010, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2010-03-25, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If the current version scheme is kept as is, there probably won't be an
> > Allegro 6 for 10 years. At least I can't fathom a reason the api would
> > just be changed wholesale again for quite a while. So at this point, I
> > don't see anything wrong with consolidating the version numbers a
> > little.
> 
> I fully expect the Allegro project to die before there is an Allegro 6.
> If there is an Allegro 6 it will be created by a new generation,
> or at least I hope it would.
> 
> As for Allegro 5, what will probably happen is that we'll have 5.0.0, a
> few 5.0.x updates, the first within a month then increasingly infrequent.
> Within half a year to five years we'll have 5.2.0, perhaps to improve
> support for touch or tablet or mind control devices or whatever, and
> then we'll have a couple of updates for that.  Then basically we'll only
> get minor changes and they'll sit and fester in SVN for months then
> years at a time but basically the job is done and the bugs don't affect
> us so no releases will be forthcoming.
> 
> Something like that.

Thats what the proposal is supposed to prevent. Not sitting on changes.

> Peter
> 
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