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

[Howard Butler]

+0 Howard

I don't like that we're changing the version macro and changing our versioning pattern 10+ years down the road. Assumptions about GDAL_VERSION_NUM are likely baked in many places, and this is going to cause some (albeit minor) pain.

There's no right way though, it's just a choice. My personal preference is to call it 2.0.

Howard
 
On Nov 12, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:

> +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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