Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: Before bumping to version 8 at an arbitrarily chosen point in time (for some value of arbitrary given the 200th release), I think it's worth settling what the version scheme will look like post-8. Are we sticking to version 8 "forever" like how

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Nicolas Sterchele via curl-library
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 02:12:11PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson via curl-library wrote: > > On 30 Jun 2020, at 13:48, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library > > wrote: > > > What do you think? > > Before bumping to version 8 at an arbitrarily chosen point in time (for some > value of arbitrary given

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn via curl-library
I wouldn't mind sticking to version 7 for as long as there are no dramatic new features or API changes that'd justify a version bump. I don't like the current trend of bumping version numbers almost every year. For example, it took about 10 years to go from gcc 4.0 to gcc 5.0. Roughly 2005 to

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Daniel JeliƄski via curl-library
Hello, Would it be a good time to start a stable (long-term support) version? Like in, version 7 would still get bug fixes, but no new features, and would be maintained until version 9 (or 10) goes out. Regards, Daniel ---

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Dennis Clarke via curl-library
On 6/30/20 11:48 AM, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: Hi friends, I've mentioned before that I'd like to see us move on to version 8 before the minor number reaches 100 to avoid confusions. I think we're at too large numbers now - they get hard to remember and are easily mixed up.

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Daniel Gustafsson via curl-library
> On 30 Jun 2020, at 13:48, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library > wrote: > What do you think? Before bumping to version 8 at an arbitrarily chosen point in time (for some value of arbitrary given the 200th release), I think it's worth settling what the version scheme will look like post-8. Are

Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
Hi friends, I've mentioned before that I'd like to see us move on to version 8 before the minor number reaches 100 to avoid confusions. I think we're at too large numbers now - they get hard to remember and are easily mixed up. curl version 7.1 was released on August 7 2000 and we've stuck