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Re: Use "1.7.7" for next release (was: Re: 1.7.5 in one/two weeks?)

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:59:23 -0400

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 15:31, Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com> wrote:
> On 4/14/12 12:24 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>>
>> 2012/4/12 Daniel Shahaf<danielsh_at_apache.org>:
>>>
>>> We released 1.6.18 today and 1.7.4 just over a month ago.  There are
>>> a few useful items merged already, and STATUS has a truckload of pending
>>> changes.
>>>
>>> Shall we roll 1.7.5 in two weeks from today?  If we can clear STATUS and
>>> roll next Thursday that's fine too, but I don't think we're in a hurry.
>>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a proposal:
>> Skip several numbers and name the next release as "1.7.7".
>>
>> Justification: to align with TortoiseSVN, which is 1.7.6 now.
>>
>> There is a lot of "Subversion exception!" threads on users@
>> where TortoiseSVN version is visible. For example [1].
>>
>> I think skipping those "already used" numbers will lessen confusion.
>
>
> Since Subversion is the base project, I would rather see TortoiseSVN change
> it's versioning to match ours than the other way.  TortoiseSVN could add an
> additional version number after Subversion's, e.g. 1.7.4-tsvn1 for the first
> TortoiseSVN release based on 1.7.4, 1.7.4-tsvn2 for the second, etc.

Or 1.7.4.0, 1.7.4.1, 1.7.4.2 ... etc

Most Windows binaries have four components anyway, right?

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2012-04-14 21:59:54 CEST

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