Re: [boost] Release numbering

Subject: Re: [boost] Release numbering
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-16 17:47:56

On 17/12/2013 03:57, Quoth Andrey Semashev:
> I think the transition to git, which is internal to Boost, is not enough to
> warrant the major version number increment. Such version change typically
> means major changes in the public interface or other properties visible by
> users.

Transition to git by itself does not seem sufficient to warrant v2.0, at 
least to me.

Modularisation *might* be, depending on the consequences of this to 
end-users (those who only use the tarballs).

I don't know what the plan is there, but if Boost is only going to be 
released as a single monolithic tarball as before then I don't think 
this warrants v2.0 either.  If it's actually going to be released 
modularly as well (eg. tarball per library, letting the user select the 
subset to install) then that might be enough, in my opinion.

Of course the C++11-only version ought to be another major version bump, 
whether that's the "real" 2.0 or pushed out to 3.0.