Re: [Axiom-developer] new AXIOM release(s)

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

| 1) IMHO publish release as CVS tree on SorceForge
| is bad practice.  To make sure whether something
| have changed or I still have some old release
| I have to check all hundreds of files in CVS tree.
| Publishing release as a single file (tarball)
| is common practice and is much better IMHO.

Fully agreed.

| 
| 2) I'd like to see some consistent version
| numbering scheme for Axiom releases which
| will last more than one year.  It will be
| of great help for maintainers of .rpm and
| .deb packages who package Axiom for
| various Linux distributions and users
| who use these packages.

I propose the numbering X.Y.Z, with

  * X == major release number
  * Y == minor release number
  * Z == patch level release number

I propose that the next version be 3.5.0, with subsequent bug fix
releases, be 3.5.x.
When we merge build-improvements to trunk, I would suggest we bump it
to 4.0.0.

I also propose that on a regular bases (e.e.g 3 months), we make
either a patch release or a minor release; we make a major release
every year.  The latter assumes we have enough momentum.

[...]

| After all this is question of identity.

Indeed.

-- Gaby