Re: Win7 with 1.6.x

On 14.02.2010 22:57, Simon Large wrote:
> 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.

Which one? I don't see the discussion getting near a consensus?

>> 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?

I think I'll have the most important stuff merged by this evening.

>> 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.

 From what I can see in the discussion, splitting away is not what most
people want.

Stefan

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