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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Next release from master
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:51:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2mvs2pndc.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <569D5D09.3020109@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:45:45 -0800")

>>>>> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:

> We try to keep APIs backward-compatible anyway though. In a
> single-number, time-based release system, we'd just announce that we're
> deprecating some API, and some time later, actually do it.

Not quite the same, though, since people have to track down and read those
announcements to know what sort of impact release 29 will have on code that
was written again 26. It's fairly easy today to expect that something you
wrote for 24.x should be expected to work over the entire 24.x series; and
equally that you're likely to need to do some work to get it running it on
25.x.

A single increasing number, or a time value, removes all meaningful content
from version numbers. Having x.y at least communicates something about the
relative meanings of x and y.

-- 
John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2



  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-12  7:09 emacs-25 merge pushed, please confirm John Wiegley
2016-01-12 11:12 ` Alex Bennée
2016-01-12 16:19   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-17 23:04 ` Next release from master Stefan Monnier
2016-01-17 23:10   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-18  9:06     ` Michael Albinus
2016-01-18 15:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-18 20:06         ` Michael Albinus
2016-01-18 20:25           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-18 15:55     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-18 21:13       ` John Wiegley
2016-01-18 21:31         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-18 21:43           ` John Wiegley
2016-01-18 21:45             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-18 21:51               ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-01-18 22:15                 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-18 22:18                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-19  3:36               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-18 15:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-21 17:35   ` Glenn Morris
2016-01-21 17:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-04 17:39       ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-04 20:31         ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 13:41           ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-08 15:54             ` John Wiegley
2016-02-08 16:47               ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-09 14:55                 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-09 15:15                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-09 14:57               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-09 22:38                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 23:42                   ` Rasmus
2016-02-10  0:09                     ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-10  0:38                       ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-10  2:04                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10  2:42                           ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-10  3:00                             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10  3:43                               ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-10  4:01                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10  3:28                             ` Alexis
2016-02-10  3:33                               ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-10  4:02                                 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-10  4:13                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-10  4:51                                     ` Alexis
2016-02-10  5:28                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-10 18:10                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10  4:58                                     ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-10  5:07                                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10  5:16                                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-10 18:09                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10 18:09                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10  5:08                                       ` Alexis
2016-02-10  5:10                                       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-10 18:08                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10 18:03                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10  4:04                                 ` Alexis
2016-02-10  4:23                                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-10 18:07                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-10 17:58                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-11 17:21                                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-11 18:11                                     ` John Wiegley
2016-02-10 17:56                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-11  3:35                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-02-11  3:55                               ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-11 15:24                                 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-11 16:07                                   ` Mark Oteiza
2016-02-11 16:20                                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-11 16:59                                   ` Teemu Likonen
2016-02-11 19:33                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-02-10  2:34                         ` Kaushal Modi
2016-02-10  3:24                           ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-10 21:46                         ` Rasmus
2016-02-10 16:40                   ` John Wiegley
2016-02-10 17:18                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-10 16:41                 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-10 17:07                   ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-02-10 18:06                   ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-02-11  3:47                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-22  1:01     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-22  1:28       ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-22  1:42         ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-22  3:50           ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-22  1:46         ` John Wiegley
2016-01-22  1:48           ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-01-22  1:56             ` John Wiegley
2016-01-22  7:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22  7:38                 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-22 14:59                   ` Barry Fishman
2016-01-22 17:45                     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-22 21:27                       ` Barry Fishman
2016-01-23  1:47                         ` John Wiegley
2016-01-25 10:38                           ` Alex Bennée
2016-01-25 15:56                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23  5:17                         ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-23 17:09                           ` Barry Fishman
2016-01-23 20:06                             ` John Wiegley
2016-01-24  4:26                               ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-24 14:11                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-24 18:04                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-24 18:35                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-25  2:20                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-22  7:26           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22  8:10             ` Michael Albinus
2016-01-22  8:25               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22  8:58                 ` Nicolas Petton
2016-01-22  9:02                   ` Michael Albinus
2016-01-22 17:42                     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-22 19:02                       ` Michael Albinus
2016-01-22 19:16                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-22 21:22                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22  7:11       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23  5:25       ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-02-11 16:28 Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-11 17:09 ` John Wiegley
2016-02-11 17:26   ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-11 17:27   ` Angelo Graziosi
2016-02-11 21:08     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-11 21:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-11 19:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-11 19:40   ` John Wiegley
2016-02-12 12:34   ` Richard Stallman

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