Re: New beta release coming -- 2.50 or 2.51

"Benjamin C. Pierce" <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Jan 2018 15:12:57 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.network.unison.devel
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But changing version numbers is not completely free, since they have to match between client and server...

   - B

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Steve Kalkwarf <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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> Version numbers are free, so I always make sure they increase.
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> If 2.51 doesn't feel like a nice, round major version, call it 2.60.
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>> On Jan 23, 2018, at 10:57 AM, Benjamin C. Pierce <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>> Dear unison hackers,
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>> We’re getting ready to publish a new beta release of Unison, and we have a question about what major version number to give it.
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>> The version number got bumped to 2.51 for a while in the master branch of the git repo, but later I realized that there was no need for this, since the set of preferences hasn’t changed.  Yesterday, I changed it back to 2.50, but this apparently confused at least one person who had already installed 2.51.  
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>> If a lot of people have already installed 2.51 then we should just put it back to 2.51.  This is what I will do (later today) by default, since I have no way of knowing how many people this is.
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>> Thoughts?
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>> - B
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