On Mon, Dec 15, 2014, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 12/15/2014 10:25 AM, Adrien Nader wrote: > > Just to be sure, you mean 4.x and therefore all the other "experimental" > > features? > > Yes, I suspect you would call it 4.x as the 3.x branch would require > substantial > changes.
I've mentionned it on IRC and I'd like to record this here too. As far as I know, a 4.0 version is not something that could be released that quickly, especially at this time of the year and with the large changes it has. I believe the landscape of Windows builds has changed, thanks to mingw-w64 among others. Nowadays more and more people want to use the newer features more and more quickly. I dislike the idea of users running on git snapshots but it seems many chose to do so because they need the new features that are only available there. I really dislike making such proposal for projects where I'm not directly very active on the code side but should the release process be changed? Maybe smaller and more frequent releases? It seemed to me that a release every 6-month or so (very roughly) would fit. I'm not arguing for strict time-based release but rather looking at the tree something like 6 months after the last release and if it brings new things then work towards a feature release. This would definitely make version numbers increase much faster than currently. By at most 2 versions a year, i.e. not that much after all. When I look at the main changes for 3.0 and the ones already in git, I'd say both changesets definitely deserve(d) a release. I don't think that even a quarter of the changes listed in each case are enough for a release: this wouldn't give mingw-w64 a reputation for doing releases only for the sake of doing releases and increasing the version numbers. This is only my personal opinion, based on what I've seen users do and request and how I've seen the code evolve. There are many people involved and their opinions are needed too. :) -- Adrien Nader http://win-builds.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
