On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Alan Alpert <[email protected]> wrote: > If we call minor releases patch releases then we're getting the terminology > mixed up. Minor releases a.B.c and patch releases a.b.C are quite separate.
Yes, sorry. I was refering to patch releases. > Because QML is declarative, brand new, and has a versioning system designed to > let it grow, it will grow faster than Qt (at least it has, historically > speaking). So if we want to have useful version numbers it will need a > different version number to Qt, especially since QML import statements don't > have a patch release number (they ought to be only at the level of > implementation details anyways and QML enforces this - so we can't just add > features in patch releases like Qt does :P ). > [...snippet...] I understand your points. But it was special in Qt 4.x. QML was right at the beginning of its life and because of this there were a lot of new features that you wanted to release as soon as possible. But for Qt 5, and QML being at the core of it I think we should plan a little bit more the releases. If QML had a so urgent need of releasing something, Qt as a project should manage that and release a minor version (not a *patch* release). Lighthouse is also very new and other technologies in Qt were also very new when we had Qt 4.0 and this was not an excuse for then to not wait the release of a minor version and start releasing stuff in patch versions. >From my point of view, if we can wait a minor release for everything else we can do the same for QML. (Please, note that I understand that we had Harmattan that had a lot of needs and because of this we had the use case of 4.7.4 but with Qt5 and OpenGovernance, Nokia's needs shouldn't affect the way we manage Qt). Cheers, -- ------------------------------------------------------- Artur Duque de Souza openBossa INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia ------------------------------------------------------- Blog: http://blog.morpheuz.cc PGP: 0xDBEEAAC3 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
