[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86 Branching - Activity versions

[Simon Schampijer]

On 10/01/2009 03:55 PM, Eben Eliason wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Peter Robinson<pbrobinson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Wade Brainerd<wadetb at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> *Activity versions*
>>>> As we use integers for activity versions (this really has to change for
>>>> 0.88 with introducing minor versions), we need to cope for the famous:
>>>> stable/unstable version issue. I would say to leave at least 3 version
>>>> numbers open when doing a new unstable release. An example:
>>>>
>>>> Walter has submitted TurtleArt 69 for 0.86. He reserves the numbers 70,
>>>> 71, 72 for bug fix releases. When he is doing a release from the
>>>> unstable master branch (0.88 development) he is using numbers>  72.
>
> This still seems pretty limiting. What if he finds he actually needs 4
> bugfix releases? Why should replace a limited system with another
> that's just as limiting (This suggestion is kind of like going from
> O(0) to O(3), instead of O(n) like we really need).
>

Just to be clear, this is just a workaround for 0.86 - as we would need 
some changes to support the dotted version numbers. For 0.88 we can do 
the dotted versions.

Regards,
    Simon