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

[Even Rouault]

Le lundi 12 novembre 2012 22:27:02, Daniel Morissette a écrit :
> +1 Daniel
> 
> 
> It took me a while to respond because initially I was worried about the
> potential impact on released application code calling GDAL (from other
> projects/products). Unless I'm mistaken it seems to me that there will
> be no impact on pre-1.10 application code that used to test for things
> like GDAL_VERSION_NUM >= 1800 (for instance). This code will continue to
> work

Yes. And even if we had wanted to change the scheme for previous versions, we 
cannot change the past (which is lucky!)

> , and only tests for GDAL 1.10/2.0 and greater will need to be fixed
> to use the new macro, which means a minimal impact limited to recent
> code which was based on non-released GDAL features anyway.

Yes.