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Date:      Tue, 9 May 1995 11:17:29 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), ache@freefall.cdrom.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-gnu@freefall.cdrom.com, thud-users@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/lib/libreadline Makefile
Message-ID:  <9505091517.AA09817@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199505091502.QAA20219@isl.cf.ac.uk>
References:  <199505090600.QAA29655@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199505091502.QAA20219@isl.cf.ac.uk>

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<<On Tue, 9 May 1995 16:02:15 +0100 (BST), Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> said:

>> Should we bump the version number _every_ time the interface is changed
>> or extended?  This would be easiest to remember to do, but would result
>> in many more minor version numbers and recompiling.  Bumping the major
>> number is more important.  It's not clear how 2.0 packages work with
>> the current libg++ (gnuregexp was removed).

> I thought we agreed that it would get bunped *once* per release.

Indeed we did so agree.

(Well, closer to the mark, I recommended establishing such a policy, a
few people stated their agreement, and nobody objected at the time.)

-GAWollman

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