Re: Versioning (Was: Re: GNUstep on freshmeat)

[Dennis Leeuw]

address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What do you think about having single version number for whole GNUstep-core? I
> would suggest to go with 1.0.0 after nearest -gui release. For more details see
> short conversation below. It would be definitely good for marketing purposes
> and for avoiding confusions.

I am pro!!!

> I think that GNUstep is stable enough to be 1.0
>
> As someone said: Evolution is not about being the best, but good enough. :-) And
> it is true not only in bology, if you look how other SW looks like.
>
> In addition, how can GNUstep have some slashdot publicity on the 1.0 release? I
> do not know how it works, but often I see gnome and kde being there.

I have tried that several times, but mostly none of the messages came 
through. Maybe it will be beter for a 1.0 release, but I shouldn't count 
on it.

Dennis

> What do you think?
>
> Stefan Urbanek
>
> ----- Preposlaná správa od Adam Fedor <address@hidden> -----
>    Dátum: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:52:27 -0600
>       Od: Adam Fedor <address@hidden>
> Odpovedať:Adam Fedor <address@hidden>
>  Predmet:Re: GNUstep on freshmeat
>      Pre: address@hidden
>
> Sounds useful. A while back, when base was stable, but gui wasn't, we 
> created the 'LaunchPad' name for the non-gui part of GNUstep. That 
> showed that GNUstep was a stable package.
>
> I've recently had problems with certain versions of base and gui not 
> working together, so it would useful to group a know set of working 
> releases together into one 'super-package'.
>
> On Sep 22, 2004, at 8:42 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>
>
> > Thanks, it works.
> >
> > Btw. would it be possible to assign single version number for whole 
> > GNUstep core
> > packages? Because there is single entry for whole GNUstep, and there 
> > is no
> > reason for having different ones for -base and -gui. Perhaps we can 
> > discuss it
> > on the -dev mailing list. I would suggest to start with 1.0.0 as -base 
> > is
> > already > 1.0 and GUI is stable enough on *nix platforms. We should 
> > consider
> > GUI being mature enough not only for marketing purposes, even 
> > internally we
> > know that it is < 1.0.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Stefan
>
>
> <snip>
>
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