Re: FVWM: FVWM3-1.0.0 is released

Dan Espen <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:42:58 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Martin Cermak <[email protected]> writes:

> On  Thu  2020-09-03  09:49 , Dominik Vogt wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 02:06:10AM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> > Well, we did it.  Version 1.0.0 of Fvwm3 is now live and ready to be
>> > installed.
>> 
>> Um, can we call that fvwm-3.0.0 instead of fvwm3-1.0.0 please?
>> Renaming the project because of a new major version was already a
>> mistake for fvwm-2.0.0.  No reason to repeat it now.
>
> ( I was just thinking of creating a brand new package for fedora
> providing /usr/bin/fvwm3 able to coexist with /usr/bin/fvwm2 from
> the existing package.  Might this make sense from the user
> perspective?  Not sure ... )

Not sure how Thomas feels.
Fvwm3 was supposed to be largely incompatible with Fvwm2 hence the name
change.  That hasn't occurred yet.

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Dan Espen