Re: Use "1.7.7" for next release

On 14.04.2012 22:28, Greg Stein wrote:

>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>> The TSVN installer already mentions the SVN version number in its file name,
>> e.g.
>> TortoiseSVN-1.7.6.22632-x64-svn-1.7.4.msi
>> =========
>>
>> And the last few 1.6.x releases also didn't have matching version numbers,
>> e.g.
>> TortoiseSVN-1.6.16.21511-x64-svn-1.6.17.msi
>>
>> So that wasn't a problem back then.
>> Why is it now?
>
> Konstantin suggested we change Subversion to deal with the
> discrepancy, rather than changing TSVN. People felt that was the wrong
> direction of change...
>
> I have to say: it *does* make things a bit harder on the users@
> mailing list. "What? 1.7.5 has not been released yet. Were you testing
> with the unreleased tarball?! Did somebody release that tarball?"

Ok, I see the problem.

But what should I do? I can't name the next TSVN release 1.7.5 since the
current TSVN version is already 1.7.6 - going back one version would
confuse users even more, and would also completely break the update
check function TSVN has.

Suggestions?

Stefan

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