Re: Gtk+4.0

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:19:11PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On 3 September 2016 at 10:27, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
>
> > The versioning looks much better. Small detail, during the next
> > development cycle, the alpha/beta/rc versions will be 3.89.x, with the
> > 3.90.0 version released in March 2017, right?
>
> Starting at ".90" has a good round number feeling to it, and it makes
> it easier to spot the pattern — but we're still debating which minor
> version number will be assigned to the first development release of
> the cycle. We are reluctant to drop the invariant that the odd release
> numbers signal instability, so the first release in a development
> cycle would be .91, and the first "island of stability" following it 6
> months later would be .92, followed by the development cycle starting
> with .93, etc.:
>
>   [ Development starts here ]
>   .91.0 → .91.n — development, dropping deprecated API
>   .92.0 → .92.n — partially stable
>   .93.0 → .93.n — development, with no strict blanket backward
> compatibility guarantee


Starting at .91/.92 permits a maximum of 2.5 years to reach 4.0, if the
numbers are kept in the 90's (otherwise it gets ugly with 3.100, 3.102,
etc).

Starting at .89/.90 would allow 3 years (2-3 years is what the
announcement says).

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Sébastien