Re: [hatari-devel] Release time for 1.8.1 ?

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 07/05/2015 22:27, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On torstai 07 toukokuu 2015, Nicolas Pomarède wrote:
> > It's not always easy to decide why such version had a big number change,
> > and other only a minor. But I really want to keep 1.9 and 2.0 for major
> > releases with huge changes (for example : full cpu switch to winuae,
> > full rewrite of the shifter emulation, full switch to sdl2, ...)
>
> There's nothing preventing us from having 1.10, 1.11 etc before 2.0.
> Hatari's v2.0 release could even be reserved just for SDL2 switch as it's a
> large dependency change, and version numbers match...
>
> On Linux kernel side, change from 3.19 to 4.0 was no bigger than change from
> 3.18 to 3.19. :-)


Hi

I thought about using 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, .. too, but as Thomas wrote 
the version if of the form "x.y.z\0" and it's kinda hardcoded in 
memorysnapshot.c to take 6 bytes when saving/restoring, so using 1.10.0 
for example would take 7 bytes in the memory snapshot header, which 
might not be correctly handled (we need to handle the case where an 
older Hatari version will load a more recent snapshot and should tell 
it's not compatible).

If we can update the use of VersionString in MemorySnapShot_OpenFile to 
work with more than 6 bytes of ident string, then I think we can use 
1.9.0 for next version, then 1.10.0, 1.11.0, ...

Nicolas