Re: Beyond 2.9.5

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

>On 12-Apr-2006, David Bateman wrote:
>
>| There is the pain of API changes and there is the pain of broken
>| features, even if they are new. Better to get it all over and down with
>| at once if we aren't going for a 2.9 testing release prior to a 3.0
>| release candidate.
>
>Sorry if I'm misunderstanding something, but I've always been planning
>to label a 2.9 snapshot as "testing" release before 3.0.  Those would
>be the release candidates.  Once things look OK, I'd go ahead and
>release 3.0.  I still don't see that 3.0 must have every new feature
>we can think of.  If that's a requirement, then I don't think 3.0 will
>ever happen.
>  
>
Agreed, but for the case of the patch manager, and the graphics handles
there is already code. It might be incomplete and buggy but getting it
in early is the way of accelerating its development. As for "[x{:}] =
..." this will cause an API change and so if the goal of the 3.0.x
releases is to keep the same api version number so oct-files can be
shared, then this must go in before 3.0.x or be delayed till the post
3.0 development tree.

Regards
David

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