Re: Could we do something to promote convert-ly?

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 08/02/2022 à 20:37, David Kastrup a écrit :
> Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:
>
> Different major number.  Possibly also odd major number and different
> minor number, but I guess stable releases are done frequently enough
> these days that it's unlikely a distribution will package an unstable
> one.


Uh, in fact we mean the same -- in 2.23.7, I was calling "23"
the minor number. I don't know if this terminology is
well-standardized. Anyway, we agree.

Odd "23" and different "7" is likely a worthy addition. With
the release of 2.23.6, I suspect we are going to get a number
of users on the unstable release because they are running
a macOS that cannot work with 32-bit binaries.


> I think we should very much avoid syntax changes within an even major
> number.

Absolutely.