[gdal-dev] Which version number for the next GDAL release : 1.10 or 2.0 ?

Even Rouault even.rouault at mines-paris.org
Sun Nov 11 11:25:41 PST 2012


Le dimanche 11 novembre 2012 20:00:37, Ben Discoe a écrit :
> +1 to everything Ragi said.
> 
> Version "numbering" like "1.10" is an affront to common sense and the basic
> concept of the decimal system, not to mention every OS's filename sorting.
> If 1.10 comes after 1.9, then it would be imperative to replace the
> misleading decimal points (which are, apparently, NOT decimal points) with
> some other punctuation (like 1-9, 1-10) to avoid confusion on precedence,
> and even that doesn't address the sorting mess.

Ben,

The version number has never been a real number. "1.9.2" is for example our 
latest stable release.

> 
> Enough changes have occurred since 1.0 (I know, since I was in fact using
> GDAL then).
> Please just call it 2.0 now.

To my eyes, the amount of changes is not the rationale for the version number. 
GDAL being primarly a library, API/ABI considerations matter most.

Even


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