Re: [boost] Boost Development Environment proposal

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-04 09:55:04

Phil Richards wrote:
> On 2007-06-04, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>>  Heh, if this is an opportunity to change the numbering, let's get rid
>>  of that 'major version' entirely, i.e. make the next release '35'.
>>  There is nothing versions 1.x and 1.y have in common for x != y, so
>>  the '1' is completely meaningless at this point.
> 
> Fine, but why skip to 35?  2 is the number that comes after 1, and the
> fact that we are currently at 1.34 doesn't mean that 34 means *that*
> much.  There are only going to be questions about "what happened to
> boost 2.x to 34.x, eh?"
> 
> Or, in other words, what I said before :-)

But it is the 1 that has lost meaning, not the 34. Moving from 1.34(.1)
to 2, 3, etc. sounds more confusing (disruptive) than moving to 35, 36, etc.

Regards,
                Stefan

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