Re: Xorg version number change

Egbert Eich wrote:
> Roland Mainz writes:
>  > Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>  > > This change doesn't look right.  The 6.8.1 release is on the
>  > > XORG-6_8-branch, and that's where 6.8.2 will come from.  HEAD is going
>  > > to be 6.9.0 or 7.0 or whatever gets decided.
>  >         ^^^^^    ^^^
>  >
>  > Please NO. Please simply stop this version number inflation. Even for
>  > the last release it wasn't really justified to bump the version number
>  > to 6.8 where 6.7.1 was sufficient (AFAIK the only argument was the
>  > introduction of the "Composite", "DAMAGE" etc. extensions).
>  > IMO the next major release should be named X11R6.8.2 unless something
>  > really really big changes (and if I recall it correctly X11R7 is
>  > reserved for the autotooled tree right now).
> 
> It has been argeed upon that the x.x.y rleases with y > 1 are bugfix
> and security update releases for the x.x.0 releases. That decisison
> has been reflected in the branch sceme of the tree.

Sounds reasonable. Hopefully noone complains when X11R6.10.0 gets
released (which alphabetically sorts lower than "X11R6.9.0"... :) ...
=:-)

> We need to be able to 'mark' a bugfix release to distinguish it from
> the release it was based on. That was what the third number was
> added for. It hasn't existed in the X.Org numbering sceme so far if
> I recall correctly.

Wasn't there a X11R6.5.1 release (and my Solaris/CDE desktop claims
(=output of sdtwsinfo) to be based on X11R6.4.1) ?

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Bye
Roland

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