To reiterate, it was to keep it backwards compatible and consistent. I gave it a lot of thought. Call it what you will.
Technically speaking a major version bump would be to 2.0. 1.7 is a minor version bump but we're already including a lot of non-backwards compatible changes in that. So might as well add one more! https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-219 --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/79#issuecomment-21963669
