Re: Win7 with 1.6.x (was: 1.7.0)

On 14 February 2010 18:47, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the thread with subject "1.7.0", there wasn't really a consensus.
> Well, nobody objected to a release with new features, but there was
> quite a controversy about what version number to use for this. None of
> the suggestions really got a consensus.

But I think we were getting towards one.

> So I think the only way to solve this problem is to merge the changes we
> did to make TSVN work better on Win7 back to the 1.6.x branch and have
> it released there.

Not the only way, but it is certainly a way forward. How big a change
is the Win7 compat change?

> Since the Win7 changes are really the only changes that are important
> (users can live quite well without the other new features, even though
> they're great), we can keep the current version numbering scheme and
> avoid any confusion a new scheme might cause.

I think there is still a case for changing our numbering to split away
from SVN releases, and given a little more time I think we could find
a format that pleases (most) people. But there is no urgency for it to
happen now.

> So I'll start merging the important Win7 changes to the 1.6.x branch soon.

Simon

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