Re: GEP-4 : Versioning and branching rules proposal

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Thomas Vander Stichele">
> 
> > Let's take an other example - metacity is up to version 2.4.0 - do we let 
> > it "downgrade" because of this and cause massive confusion when gnome 2.4 
> > is out ?
> 
> Heh, d'oh.
> 
> > I'd like to know what these rules would mean for fifth-toe stuff.
> 
> This is really only meant to apply to Developer Platform and Desktop stuff,

If it is really mean to apply to desktop aswell, then the GEP should be
appropriately amended. 

> and even then, some of it is NOTQUITEGNOME.
> 
> For instance, I don't think this should necessarily apply to ORBit2,
> libxml2/libxslt, GTK+, etc. Keeping the 100% GNOME stuff in line will be
> great, but we can't expect it from everyone else.
> 
> Perhaps this should be called a 'recommendation', though I'd really love to
> see some of the sanity-preserving stuff be a 'rule'. :-)
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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> 

	Sander

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