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

[Etienne Tourigny]

Hi,

I think it should be 1.10, I don't see any major difference with 1.9
and no major api changes. I see it more like an incremental release
than a major milestone.

I recall some time ago a discussion about the unification of ogr and
gdal, and that goal still seems pretty far (unless I missed
something).

How much of the items listed in the following page have been implemented?
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/GDAL20Changes

Let's say you release 2.0 now, and within 1 year there are significant
API breaks, would that require a new 3.0 version ?

Etienne

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Dmitry Baryshnikov <polimax at mail.ru> wrote:
> 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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