Re: [Help-gsl] Linear least squares, webpages and the next release

[Patrick Alken]

A few of the interfaces have changed, however the main issue is that
some of the internal workspaces have been modified, meaning that
existing programs cannot link against the new library and must be
recompiled. Therefore we need to bump the major version number.

On 10/22/2015 05:28 PM, Peter Johansson wrote:
> Why is the next version called v2.0 rather than v1.17. Bumping the
> major number (1->2) is interpreted by many (including me) that things
> are gonna break in the interface, which I hope is not the case. Please
> don't bump major version number just to show how much development has
> happened between releases.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter