I vote for bumping to 1.0.0.0? What other implications does it carry other
than saying it is a major new version(IE: apis and configs may have
changed).

Thanks!
JW

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Eric Merritt <[email protected]>wrote:

> Guys,
>
>  We have made a bunch of sinan changes over the last few months, they
>  where good solid changes that needed to happen, they gave us a nice
>  base to build on, but they really didn't effect your use of sinan
>  very much. Things got faster and coding in sinan became easier but
>  the sinan user didn't really feel the change. Well the next set of
>  changes are going to be impactful. That is they are going to give us
>  functionality that we need but they are not going to be backwards
>  compatible.
>
>
>  I am converting the configuration over to sane erlang terms format,
>  along with some other expansion of what and how things can be
>  configured. This is all in preparation for a later change that
>  vastly expands project dependency configuration. So your existing
>  sinan config files are no longer going to be compatible.  Though the
>  transition should be pretty easy.
>
>  So this all brings up the question, how should we go about
>  releasing. Sinan uses the '0.0.0.0' version string with the current
>  version about to be '0.23.0.0'. We tend to make the second number
>  our major version number and we haven't used the first number at
>  all. I am tempted no just bump it to '1.0.0.0' but that carries some
>  implications to the world at large that I am not sure is good. It
>  could be that that is ignorable though.
>
>  At the moment, I am thinking I will just bump it to one, and if we
>  ever do another major backwards incompatible change bump it to 2
>  etc. However, I am open to suggestions and advice on this subject.
>
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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