Re: [Geotools-admin] Skipping GeoTools 3

[Michael B. <mic...@gm...>]

Hi Jody,

Maven can cope with more than three numbers:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/version-rules.html

For my part I'm +/-0 on the proposal, ie. not sure but happy to go
along with whatever consensus emerges.

Michael

On 1 April 2011 14:42, Jody Garnett <jod...@gm...> wrote:
> Thought there was a limitation in maven with respect to 4th numbers.
> Part of my thinking is:
> - dropping the 2 as useless (as jdeolive noted)
> - recognising our policy of api changes between 2.7 and 2.8 (as tripped up
> geomajis recently)
> - recognising the age of the project (going on 15 years now?)
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Friday, 1 April 2011 at 10:44 AM, Michael Bedward wrote:
>
> Hi Jody,
>
> I've no problem with the proposal, but just to put another idea on the
> table: some projects, and Java itself, have a 4 number system e.g.
> Java 1.6.0_22.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 1 April 2011 11:10, Jody Garnett <jod...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I have been giving some thought to skipping GeoTools 3.
> GeoServer would like to make a release, just have we released 2.7.0.  Our
> numbering is getting in the way as we have no good number left over for
> "patch" releases. It also does not match our release practice with respect
> to api change.
>
> This entire project was started as GeoTools "2"; we have already dropped "2"
> from our website, our jars (they used to be gt2-main), etc...
> With this in mind:
> - I would like to issue a 7.0.1 release - with patch releases not being
> worthy of a release announcement.
> A slightly sillier option is:
> - Release GeoTools 5.7.1 (matching Java 5). With a GeoTools 6.0.0 starting
> up when Java 6 is the minimum requirement.
> I am willing to write up a proposal to this effect; but would like to give a
> chance for the admin list to shoot the idea down in flames first.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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