Re: Next Libtool Point Release Pending

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On 6 Aug 2010, at 11:59, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Gary,

Hallo Ralf!

> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 06:01:37AM CEST:
>> I promised to roll a 2.2.12 release this month.  But looking at the
>> huge progress we've made so far with Windows since 2.2.10, I'm
>> wondering if we would be better to roll 2.2.12 sooner rather than
>> later?
> 
> I am still looking at several regressions in git over 2.2.10, so no,
> a release right now (as opposed to in a couple of weeks, hopefully)
> would make me rather unhappy.
> 
> Also, I would prefer a release with this patch series in, at least if
> the series is in mergeable shape in the near future.

Okay, I'll pencil in a new release for the end of August.

>> Slightly related, I wonder whether all the progress on Windows
>> justifies calling the next release 2.4?
> 
> A higher number could help notify people that more new bugs have crept
> in, certainly.  ;-)  The w32 support requires Automake support to be
> really usable though, and we're still working on that.  I had kinda
> hoped that there could at least an Automake beta that carries that work.
> 
> 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?

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)