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

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 12-11-08 01:49 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
>
>> I appologise to Howard or others who have been tuning configuration logic
>> for a 2.0 release.
>
> It depends on how they have tuned...
>
> We have a small technical detail to solve with 1.10 because of
> #  define GDAL_VERSION_NUM
> (GDAL_VERSION_MAJOR*1000+GDAL_VERSION_MINOR*100+GDAL_VERSION_REV*10+GDAL_VERSION_BUILD)
>
> With the current definition 1.10 and 2.0 would resolve to 2000... Annoying.
>
> So we would need to redefine it likely as
>
> #  define GDAL_VERSION_NUM
> (GDAL_VERSION_MAJOR*1000000+GDAL_VERSION_MINOR*10000+GDAL_VERSION_REV*100+GDAL_VERSION_BUILD)
>
> and 1.10 would then be 1100000 which is still greater than 2000 ...

Even,

Ugg.   OK, I now remember this being one of the reasons I'm not in
favor of a 1.10 release.  I'm not too fond of redefining GDAL_VERSION_NUM's
layout.  I wonder if this would cause any surprising problems.

Blech


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