From owner-cvs-gnu Tue May 9 08:18:51 1995 Return-Path: cvs-gnu-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA17007 for cvs-gnu-outgoing; Tue, 9 May 1995 08:18:51 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA16999 ; Tue, 9 May 1995 08:18:41 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.3.6) id AA09817; Tue, 9 May 1995 11:17:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 11:17:29 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9505091517.AA09817@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Paul Richards 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 In-Reply-To: <199505091502.QAA20219@isl.cf.ac.uk> References: <199505090600.QAA29655@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199505091502.QAA20219@isl.cf.ac.uk> Sender: cvs-gnu-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant