Re:[PanoTools-devel] patch to add support for more projections

[Daniel M. G. <dmg...@uv...>]

 jwatters  twisted the bytes to say:

 Pablo> Changing that would require a changes to the API, which might
 Pablo> break programs that call the transform functions directly.
 Pablo> (PTGui and PTMac might do this/might have done this).
 >> 
 >> 
 >> One way to ease the pain is to do a version number upgrade. I think we
 >> need to start thinking about it. After all the new features warrant it.
 >> 
 >> My $0.02
 >> 
 >> dmg

 Jim> I would like the next release of PanoTools to include all tools bundled
 Jim> together.  Make it a major release.
 Jim> There definitely are programs that call transform functions directly (
 Jim> plug-ins, Pano2QTVR,  ).
 Jim> The best thing probably would be to change the name of the DLL/library
 Jim> from pano12 (pano13 comes to mind).
 Jim> We should also maintain the current version.  So splitting the source tree
 Jim> is probably in order.

Yes, I suggest creating a branch for pano12, and using the main trunk
for the current development.

WHy don't we use a linux approach to numbering: pano13 for
development, and pano14 for stable?

 Jim> If we are going to split the source tree and create a new version we
 Jim> should incorporate as many things as possible.  There have been several
 Jim> items that I can not recall right now, that were put on hold because of
 Jim> backwards compatibility.  I should really dig through my messages and
 Jim> submit feature request for all of these so they can be tracked.

We can make list of features that we will include in the next release
an work towards that. 


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