On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 1:34 AM Matthias St. Pierre < matthias.st.pie...@ncp-e.com> wrote:
> > On 21.09.2018 17:27, Tim Hudson wrote: > > > > We cannot remove the current major version number - as that concept > exists and we have used it all along. > > We don't just get to tell our users for the last 20+ years what we > called the major version (which was 0 for the first half and 1 for the > second half) doesn't exist. > > > > There has been a famous precedent in history though: Java dropped the > "1." prefix when going from "1.4" to "5.0" > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#Versioning_change) > Unfortunately that isn't a good example - as the version number didn't actually change - just the marketing and download packaging. The APIs continue to return 1.5.0 etc. And many Java developers continue to use the real version numbers. That is something I wouldn't suggest makes sense as an approach - to change the tarfile name and leave all the internals the same achieves nothing. Tim.
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