On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Dec 18, 2007 4:23 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sure, but at some point that's something users mixing versions should be > > ready to cope with. We try to make it as painless as possible of > > course. > > I have to say I agree with the "apparently minor updates should not > break cross-version compat". And I think it's a communication issue > around the version numbering. The fact that this will be introduced > with a v1.5.5 is, IMHO, a good part of the problem. > > If cvs 1.11 doesn't talk with 1.12 I'll say there are nuts - minor > revisions should interoperate with end users not even thinking about > it. But 1.5.5 has in its changelog lots of deprecations and interop > changes. > > It's not good communication to label it 1.5.5. I agree. Might be time for 1.6.0? Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
