Stephen J Baker wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Brian Paul wrote:
>
> > Here's another issue. There's an effort underway to standardize
> > the OpenGL environment on Linux. One aspect of that is version
> > numbering for the libGL.so file (used to be libMesaGL.so).
> >
> > I propose this lib name for the 3.1 release: libGL.so.1.2.310
> > The 1.2 designates an implementation of the 1.2 API specification.
> > The 310 designates the Mesa version number (3.1.0). The main idea
> > is to allow Linux OpenGL apps to relink with other OpenGL
> > implementations at load/runtime. Comments?
>
> I think that the Mesa numbering scheme should simply be the
> OpenGL version number and a consecutively incrementing third
> number.
>
> It's usual for the last number in a three part version number
> to represent bug fixes and optimisations, and the first two
> part to indicate changes that affect the API or user interface
> significantly.
>
> Since Mesa is just following the OpenGL API, the only time one
> of the higher up numbers should change is when OpenGL changes -
> and that's covered by picking the same version number as the
> OpenGL spec.
>
> So, I would simply renumber Mesa versions to continue from:
>
> 1.2.1
>
> ...starting with the next release. I think that would be
> less confusing than running two sets of version numbers
> in parallel (1.2.310 *and* 3.1) - although there would
> of course be a small one-time confusion at the point of
> switch.
>
> (Does anyone even remember Mesa 1.x ?)
Every once in a while someone asks me about problems with version
1.2.8 (circa 1995)!
I've checked in changes so that libGL.so.1.2.310 is built using
the old Makefile scheme.
Steve's been the only one to comment on my new numbering idea.
I respect his opinion but I think I'll release 3.1 beta 3 with
the 1.2.310 number and see what the response is.
I'm hesitant to restart Mesa's version numbering at 1.2.0.
I think there would be quite a bit of confusion.
-Brian
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