[gdal-dev] Motion: Release next major GDAL version as GDAL/OGR 1.10

[Frank Warmerdam]

+1 Frank


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org>wrote:

> Motion: The next major GDAL version released from trunk will be called
> GDAL/OGR 1.10.
>
> To take into account 2-figure numbers in the components of the version
> number,
> the GDAL_VERSION_NUM macro will be changed accordingly as :
>
> #  define GDAL_VERSION_NUM
>
> (GDAL_VERSION_MAJOR*1000000+GDAL_VERSION_MINOR*10000+GDAL_VERSION_REV*100+GDAL_VERSION_BUILD)
>
> A new macro will be added so that users don't have to do all the above
> multiplications :
>
> #define GDAL_COMPUTE_VERSION(maj,min,rev)
> (maj*1000000+min*10000+rev*100)
>
> (Note: as raised by Mateusz, I've dropped the 'build' argument in the
> macro,
> since it has never been used in the past and it is unlikely code would
> depend
> on that)
>
> ----
>
> Hi,
>
> Not surprisingly when it is related to preferences on version numbering,
> the
> previous discussion thread has not lead to a clear consensus on the topic,
> but
> we need to make a decision soon so that users can anticipate the
> adaptations
> needed in their code.
>
> 1.10 seems the more logical option to me, even if that implies changing the
> way we compute GDAL_VERSION_NUM, which I don't anticipate to cause
> problems to
> existing code. There are also a few existing documentation pages in
> drivers or
> utilities that mention GDAL 2.0 that will need to be changed, but I'll take
> care of this if the motion is approved (some sed magic should do this).
>
> +1 Even
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