On Thursday 29 September 2011, Andras Mantia wrote: > On Thursday, September 29, 2011 21:43:34 Stefan Majewsky wrote: > > Without judging on the other arguments which look very reasonable to > > me... > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> > > wrote: > > > 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to > > > have a KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. [...] > > > > ...what exactly stops you from advertising kdelibs 4.7.x as version > > 4.8? (And I mean "advertise", so only the user-visible parts, not > > version numbers in .so files or whatever.) > > Now that would add a lot of confusion.
Can the version number of kdelibs 4.7.x simply be increased to 4.8 when 4.8 is branched ? It would have only bugfixes, but it seems it would make life simpler for some people. Alex