I think there's going to be quite a few. Since we got rid of ROP, we can tighten our naming everywhere - modules, packages, classes.
Andrus > On Nov 22, 2023, at 8:07 AM, Michael Gentry <blackn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Nikita! > > Both sound very reasonable to me, so +1 for that. > > Will there be any backward-compatibility breaking changes in 5.x? > > Thanks, > mrg > > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 3:04 AM Nikita Timofeev <ntimof...@objectstyle.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Wanted to share a couple of my thoughts about changes that could be good >> for Cayenne. And the first milestone release of Cayenne 5.0 could be a >> perfect target for these changes. >> >> 1. Get rid of the `server` part in the names everywhere, starting by >> renaming our core dependency from `cayenne-server` to just `cayenne`. >> As we already removed the `client` counterpart, `server` just doesn't make >> sense anymore. >> >> 2. Change of the versioning schema we use for the development cycle. A >> short version of the proposal: drop BETA versions, keep the version of >> snapshot build always the same, and slightly change format to articulate >> what is the actual version. >> >> Format would look like `MAJOR.MINOR-QUALIFIER`. Where the qualifier is one >> of `SNAPSHOT`, `M` for the milestone or `RC` for the release candidate. >> >> Example for the 5.0: >> - snapshot always stays as 5.0-SNAPSHOT >> - milestones releases are 5.0-M1, 5.0-M2 etc. >> - release candidates are 5.0-RC1, 5.0-RC2, etc. >> - and final release is just 5.0 >> >> And here's a reason for that change. It solves two minor problems with the >> current schema. The first one is that all systems think that `B` goes >> before `M`, so our beta versions always look older than milestones. We are >> not that strict about what is beta nor are we enforcing any rules, so there >> should be no problems with that. >> The second one is that projects using SNAPSHOT versions should update >> dependency every time we make a dev release. Again not a big change and >> should not affect anything really, as there shouldn't be many projects >> brave enough to just use SNAPSHOT. >> >> Note this change does not affect overall versioning, e.g. patch versions >> like 5.0.1 or global updates like 5.1. >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Nikita Timofeev >>
