[Omake] Releases and versioning (0.9.8.2, 0.9.8.3, 0.9.9, 0.90.0, ...?)

[Jason Hickey]

On May 29, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Aleksey Nogin wrote:

> So far, I still have not announced the 0.9.8.2 release. There was  
> at least one bug fix past the initial 0.9.8.2-2 (the .omakedb fd  
> close) that might warrant re-spinning the release.
>
> I am thinking that it would probably be better to simply do 0.9.8.3  
> (off the current "0.9.8.2" branch) rather than to try going for  
> 0.9.8.2-3 (especially given that the initial attempt to release  
> 0.9.8.2-1 was over a month ago!).

Why?  I admit that numbering doesn't have to be consecutive, but  
0.9.8.2 has never been released, so there is no harm in using it.

>
> I would also propose:
>  - Renaming 0.9.8.2 back to 0.9.8.x and keeping it around for any  
> follow-up bugfixes that might come up until we can release  
> something off the other branch.
>
>  - Renaming the 0.9.8.x to 0.9.9.x (while the language changes are  
> not that significant, they are significantly more than a simple  
> feature enhancement/bugfix and it seems appropriate to do a larger  
> version step)

Well, I don't really agree.  It feels to me that the motive behind  
these numerical suggestions is simply to prevent progress.  How did  
we get here?  OMake has always been in development.  Think of how far  
we have come even since 0.9.6.  The code restructuring currently on  
the table is insignificant in comparison.

Jason

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