Re: Next Libtool Point Release Pending

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > OTOH, since I hope to have more larger changes in the future, I'm not
> > sure we really want another major number bump already.
>
> That's only a minor bump, according to major.minor.micro:
>
>  major bump => substantial rewrite
>  minor bump => new features, new code and new bugs
>  micro bump => regressions and bugs fixed
>
> This is the scheme I believe most people recognize, and that suggests
> to me that 2.4.0 would be the next logical release number?

You do make a good point.  It is better to advance the minor number 
(rather than continually increase the micro number) if significant new 
features have been added.  However, the objectives should be met (e.g. 
really able to build adequately with MSVC) before we bump to 2.4. 
This should not discourage including 99% of the necessary updates in 
another 2.2 release.

Bob
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