I wouldn't mind sticking to version 7 for as long as there are no dramatic new features or API changes that'd justify a version bump.
I don't like the current trend of bumping version numbers almost every year. For example, it took about 10 years to go from gcc 4.0 to gcc 5.0. Roughly 2005 to 2015 I guess. Now it's 2020 and we're at gcc 10.0. Chrome is now at version 83.0. I think this is a bit silly. IMHO versions should only be bumped in case of dramatic changes or improvements over the previous release. $0.02 On 30.06.2020 at 13:48 Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: > Hi friends, > I've mentioned before that I'd like to see us move on to version 8 before the > minor number reaches 100 to avoid confusions. I think we're at too large > numbers now - they get hard to remember and are easily mixed up. > curl version 7.1 was released on August 7 2000 and we've stuck to version 7 > ever since. I wanted to stick to version 7 for as long as we remained API > compatable - even if we ignored a few chances to bump the number when we > bumped the SONAME a few times in the early 2000s. > In October 2006 we shipped curl 7.16.0 and we haven't bumped the major SONAME > number since. My strong hope is that we never will again. > So, I think we need to consider doing a version 8 release without an SONAME > bump. I think we should just do it at some point, without putting many > requirements of any new bells or whistles. Similar to how the Linux kernel > does it, if you will. > My current thinking, as I mentioned in some release video recently, is that we > make our 200th release version 8.0. Not because it actually means anything, > but because it gives us something to aim at. And its a fine, even and aligned > number. > The release coming tomorrow is going to become version 7.71.1 and is our 193rd > release since the beginning. If we go to version 8.0 on release 200, it means > only 6 more release in the version 7 series and if we manage to do full > release cycles (which is probably a bit optimistic) we could perhaps be at > version 8.0 in a little less than a year from now. With a few short release > cycles added to the mix, maybe already in the early 2021. > What do you think? -- Best regards, Andreas Falkenhahn mailto:andr...@falkenhahn.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
