On 04/04/15 19:44, David Faure wrote: > On Saturday 28 March 2015 05:49:01 Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 28/03/15 03:48, Alex Merry wrote: >>> On Wednesday 25 March 2015 22:35:24 Stephen Kelly wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> ECM release numbers are in sync with KF5 release numbers, except for the >>>> major component. >>>> >>>> This means that if you want to build the 5.x.y release you have to >>>> download >>>> the 1.x.y release of ECM. That doubles the complexity of your script >>>> which >>>> downloads the tarball to build it. >>>> >>>> That is bad and it is not necessary. >>>> >>>> Let's sync the major number for the next release. >>>> >>>> At some point the reason to make them out of sync was to be able to make >>>> ECM releases more frequently. That is very rare because KF5 releases are >>>> happening every month. If ECM needs to make an out of band release, it >>>> can use the 4th version number component. >>> >>> I have no particular objection, although I think "doubling the complexity" >>> of scripts is overstating things a little. >>> >>> Alex >> >> Is ECM actually part of KF5, or just happens to be released alongside >> it? (I thought the latter, hence the different version). > > The initial idea was "it' happens to be released alongside, when necessary". > > I.e. as a "marketing" message: you can use ECM without using KF5. > But, well, this modularity exists for the rest of KF5 too (you can use > KArchive without using KIO), so this would still be clear if the version > number was aligned. > > I also saw it as a way to not include it if it didn't change, but in practice > there's always at least one change every month, usually more ;) > >> FWIW the different version doesn't bother me at all as a downstream. > > And it doesn't bother me as the release dude - I have one if() in the version > file ;) (so, I also disagree with "doubles the complexity"). > > But since both Stephen Kelly and Alex Merry (maintainers of ECM) are in > favour > of switching, I'll make the switch. >
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