OK, I'm convinced. Anyhow there are plenty of possible version numbers left :)
Another reason could be that I'm unable to do as much testing myself as usual. A minor inconvenience is that the older-mac compiles will have to wait until I can get back to my usual lair. cheers Miller On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 03:09:52PM +0200, Thomas Mayer wrote: > Hello, > > On 15.10.22 22:00, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > > imho, a "bugfix release" is a promise to the user that says "nothing has > > changed with respect to the previous release, except we fixed these > > annoying bugs". > > so i worry not about "features" but about "anything not a bugfix". > > > > and with 0.52-3, plenty of things have changed (and a few annoying bugs > > have been fixed as well). > > ~70 C-files have been modified, and 3 header files have been modified > > (suggesting additions to the API) > > > > so i just fail to understand why we can't just call it "0.53-0", as this > > clearly is beyond a "bugfix" release. > > I fully agree with IOhannes. Someone may need a bugfix for their concert > next week and they are positively surprised by getting this bugfix just in > time, while being negatively surprised by the regression during their > performance. Signalling big changes by version number is a good thing. > > Not every user read the release info or changelog, as to most this is > unintelligable gibberish (What exactly does "rework of GUI code" mean to an > end user?) > > Just my 0,02€, > Thomas > -- > "Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police > are effective. They're a kind of job insurance." > (Leto II. in: Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune) > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.residuum.org/__;!!Mih3wA!AVIbE0_v1-MHS2tTRmwa3LkvCU--F0EPQtU_jlsMOCkEZDMtp4k8cEZ4u1L4wLqTX-c84pslBUeqRg$ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev__;!!Mih3wA!AVIbE0_v1-MHS2tTRmwa3LkvCU--F0EPQtU_jlsMOCkEZDMtp4k8cEZ4u1L4wLqTX-c84puRLOnH8Q$ _______________________________________________ Pd-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
