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

Dmitry Baryshnikov polimax at mail.ru
Wed Nov 7 11:51:27 PST 2012


07.11.2012 23:17, Even Rouault пишет:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if we shouldn't release GDAL trunk as GDAL 1.10 instead of GDAL
> 2.0.
I think that 2.0 is a good motivation to make more global changes. 
Though we have an example of version shift in Linux kernel from 2.x to 3.x.
>
> As far as I know, there haven't been yet any change in GDAL trunk that
> qualifies as a major re-architecturing, or that breaks the C API & ABI of the
> GDAL 1.X series. I'm not sure if or when someone will want to tackle one of
> the items listed in http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GDAL20Changes , but this
> would likely defer a release by months, especially if we want a GDAL 2.0 with
> a number of significant changes. And sticking with our traditional yearly
> release rythm seems to me like a good practice. Current trunk has nothing
> revolutionary, but a nice amount of new drivers and fixes/improvements that are
> worth a release.
>
> Thoughts ?
I think 1.10 is enough.
>
> Regards,
>
> Even
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Best regards,
Dmitry


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