[Plplot-devel] Re: Version

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Alan W. Irwin writes:
 > (2) What should the package version be?  I vote for 5.2.0 rather than 6.0.0
 > just because I want to conserve numbers.  There are lots of major changes in
 > our future so I don't want to start running into double-digit major numbers
 > any sooner than we have to. The other issue, is that from the Linux user
 > perspective there is not much major change in this version. Under the hood
 > there is of course major change with the new configuration system, but once
 > the version is installed (i.e., what a binary rpm or deb user will see) the
 > user won't notice huge changes.

I think we should go to 5.99a, then after that 5.99b, 5.99c, etc.
When the package is finally completely stable then release it as 6.0.

:-P

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...
Research Organization for Information Science and Technology of Japan (RIST)