Hi everyone.
It's been a few months since we released 1.3.8 and the 1.3 branch has
accumulated a bunch of corrections that I think would be nice to deliver
to our users.
However, once we deliver 1.3.9 we have a problem with version numbers if
we want/need to make further releases from the 1.3 branch. (Technical
details at the end of the mail.)
I can think of the following ways to handle this:
1) We deliver 1.3.9 and hope we don't need to release anything until
1.4.0 in trunk is ready.
2) We wait and don't deliver 1.3.9 until trunk is almost ready for next
release, thereby making sure 1.3.10 is never needed.
3) We deliver 1.3.9 and future 1.3 releases will be called 1.3.9b,
1.3.9c, etc. I.e. they will have the same version number.
4) If a 1.3.10 is needed, the trunk version is bumped to 1.4.1 allowing
1.3.10 to be used. However other clients (and older Licq versions) will
identify it as 1.4.0 instead.
5) Same as previous but we change trunk directly to 1.5.0 instead,
giving 1.3 plenty of version numbers to use (up to 1.3.19).
6) Next 1.3 version after 1.3.9 will be 1.4.0 even though it's delivered
from the 1.3 branch. Next trunk release will use 1.5.0.
Looking at trunk today, I think we're making good progress towards the
next main release, but much remains to do so I expect at least another 6
months before it can make a proper release and if we deliver 1.3.9 now I
think it's fair to assume we will find more stuff to put in the 1.3
branch before trunk is ready.
Due to this, I think either option 5 or 6 above are the safest ways to go.
So to summarize: Is it time to release 1.3.9? And how to we version
releases after that?
/Anders
Technical stuff on why 1.3 versions higher than 1.3.9 is a problem:
Licq identifies itself towards other ICQ clients with a 16 bit version
number. This version is packed, i.e. version "12.34.5" becomes
12000+340+5 = 12345.
As the last part of the release only has one digit, encoding 1.3.10
would become 1000+30+10 = 1040, i.e. when decoded it will look like 1.4.0.
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