On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Noel O'Boyle <baoille...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6 April 2010 10:34, Egon Willighagen <egon.willigha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> CDK uses the Linux kernel system [0]: >> >> x.even is stable >> x.odd is development (or unstable) >> >> So, the current stable release series is 1.2.x, and the current >> development series is 1.3.x. The latter will lead (aim this summer) to >> a new stable series numbered 1.4. > > So could you explain exactly what API changes are allowed between > successive Minor releases (e.g. 1.2 and 1.3), and what API changes are > allowed between successive Point releases (e.g. 1.2.3 and 1.2.4)?
The used numbering scheme does not identify the second number as 'Minor'. Instead, those are actually 'Major'. I am not sure what they call the first number, so I'll call that Foo, giving you: Foo.Major.Minor.Point. Between 1.2.x and 1.2.(x+1) the API is stable. Only bug fixes and sometimes new functionality. Rarely an API change, if this is really needed to fix a grave bug. Betweem 1.2 and 1.3, anything can happen. 1.3 is a Foo.odd release, so the API can be changed at will. Just to make clear, CDK does *not* use the Major.Minor.Version release scheme. Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Cdk-user mailing list Cdk-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-user
