Re: Release plans: Version 4.4.4 and beyond

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

On 12.09.2011 05:50, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:

> The chief arguments I see for bumping the version to 5
> (rather than 4.6):
>
> 1) The code in the development branch has diverged enough from the
> code in the version 4 branch that most new patches cannot be easily
> back-ported.

> 2) There are significant syntax and UI changes already in or queued for
> the development branch, notably

[...]

I consider those good reasons to make a new non-patchlevel release, but 
I don't see the case for a major version number step.  Those should IMHO 
be reserved for user-visible, _incomptabible_ changes.  I.e. as long as 
basically all scripts written for version 4.0 (or maybe 4.4) still work, 
I don't quite see a reason to bump to 5.0.

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