On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Adrien Nader <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2015, JonY wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> v4.0.4 is released! (v4.0.3 had a major bug, therefore skipped) >> >> This release fixes a couple of bugs found in the last release: >> * Major performance to winpthread mutex and spinlock implementation >> courtesy of Mattias Engdegård. >> * tchar.h now included in w32api mode installation. >> >> And here are the downloads: >> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v4.0.4.tar.bz2> >> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v4.0.4.tar.bz2.asc> >> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/mingw-w64/mingw-w64-release/mingw-w64-v4.0.4.tar.bz2.sig> >> >> > > This is great news. However I'm wondering about the general versioning > scheme. > Wouldn't it have made more sense to name it 4.1.0? In other words, when > do we use that middle number and set it to something else than 0?
Generally speaking, the third number is for bug fixes, the middle number is for normal new features, and the first number is for backwards-compatibility-breaking or platform-deprecating new features. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
