Re: [g-a-devel] API Break? Bad versioning practice? Problems with gail/atk/at-spi

[Li Yuan <Li Yuan Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 21:04 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Hi Elijah, and Li:
> 
> Since our atk, at-spi, and gail versions are all < 16, perhaps
> we can and should sync the minor number with the gnome release, starting 
> with the next releases for gnome-2.18 beta2 and 2.16.5+
> 
> I don't think we need to follow what orca is doing, and sync the micro 
> release and major numbers too, i.e. I don't think gnome-2.19.1 should 
> have "atk-2.19.1", but I do agree that we should:
> 
> 1) keep the minor number in sync with the gnome release where possible, and
> 2) (implied by above) use odd minor numbers for 'unstable' releases and 
> even minor numbers for stable.
> 
> Sorry that we deviated from this scheme in the past 18 months or so, we 
> used to use odd minor numbers for unstable but just stopped!
> 
> Li, does this sound like the right thing to do?

It is OK to me. So I should release atk, gail and at-spi 1.17.91 for
GNOME 2.18.0 Beta 2, right?


Li
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Bill
> 
> Elijah Newren wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know the accessibility folks are some of the most overworked and
> > understaffed (despite their huge importance to the project), so I hope
> > this doesn't come across as critical.  But there's a problem with
> > releases that needs to be straightened out.  In short, it's nearly
> > impossible to tell which versions of gail/atk/at-spi are meant for
> > stable and unstable releases.  There might be API or other freeze
> > breaks, or it may just be that the versioning system is very confusing
> > and stable tarball releases aren't being made.
> >
> > at-spi-1.17.12 was released for gnome 2.16.1.  at-spi-1.17.16 is the
> > most recent version.  at-spi doesn't follow GNOME version numbering,
> > which is suboptimal.  One would normally guess that 1.17.16 doesn't
> > have any feature/ui/string/api changes or additions and thus is fine
> > for the 2.16.3 release (given that only the micro version number has
> > increased).  However, at-spi-1.17.6 depends on atk>=1.13.  (cf.
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400440).  Lack of following
> > GNOME versioning makes life difficult here too.  The ChangeLog
> > indicates that atk-1.13.x includes new API over atk-1.12.x and thus is
> > not suitable for inclusion in the 2.16.3.
> >
> > gail has similar problems.  The ChangeLog indicates that 1.9.4 was
> > specifically for gnome 2.17.4 (while 1.9.3 was specifically meant for
> > gnome 2.16.1), but in this case I can't tell if there were any
> > api/feature/ui/string changes or additions.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for all your hard work,
> > Elijah
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