On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:30 +0100, Radek Vokál wrote: > Last week I thought the net-snmp is heading to a final release of 5.2.2 > but now I see pre-release of 5.3.
That's correct. We're almost at the point of releasing 5.2.2, and are starting to gear up towards 5.3 > I'm quite lost in versioning - what > will be the next version? 5.2.2 - that's basically ready for release, with just a couple of minor problems to iron out. 5.3 is only just starting the release process - applying a freeze on new development, so we can concentrate on making sure it works OK on all the systems we have access to. It'll probably be about a month or so before that's ready to be released properly. > Is 5.3 brand new branch and 5.2.2 just update Yes - that's it in a nutshell. When 5.2 was released, that saw this code move from "development" mode (i.e. the constant addition of new features) to "bug fix only". The 5.2.2 release is basically a consolidation of the 5.2.1 code. There should be no real changes - just the fixing of assorted bugs. > It doesn't seems so to me cos 5.2.2 changes many things in libs etc. Just 'cos something is a bug fix, rather than a new feature - that doesn't mean it's necessarily a small change! Some bug fixes can affect a large number of files. But the behaviour of the 5.2.2 code should be practically identical to that of 5.2.1. That won't necessarily be true of 5.3 - this will see the introduction of various new features (and a couple of re-implementations). So there are likely to be more visible differences between 5.2.x and 5.3, than between 5.2.x and 5.2.y releases. Not *major* differences - we do try to maintain backward compatibility as much as possible. But a new major release will always include new features, so may behave in subtly different ways to the previous versions. Upgrading from one minor release to the next is typically much smoother. Does that help explain things? Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
