Re: gok 1.0.9 available!

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le vendredi 12 mai 2006 à 09:44 -0400, David Bolter a écrit :
>   
> > Frederic Crozat wrote:
> >     
> > > Le jeudi 11 mai 2006 à 17:09 -0400, David Bolter a écrit :
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > Hi.
> > > >
> > > > We're pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.9 of GOK, the GNOME Onscreen Keyboards Suite.
> > > >
> > > > A huge thank you to everyone who continues to contribute to this project!
> > > >
> > > > What is it ?
> > > > =================
> > > > GOK is designed to allow access to the GNOME desktop and other X applications by people who cannot use a physical keyboard (or mouse), or in situations where a physical keyboard is not present.
> > > >
> > > > What's New?
> > > > ===========
> > > > This is a bugfix release.
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > it appears 1.0.9 is GNOME 2.15.x materiel, since it requires glib 2.11
> > > (ie the goption usage in gok).
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, you didn't branch gok before landing this material and
> > > the versioning could let people thing it is only a minor release.
> > >
> > > Could you create a 2.14 branch and make sure next gok release are
> > > numbered 1.1.x (or even better, 2.15.x ;)
> > >
> > > Thanks you in advance.
> > >
> > >   
> > >       
> > Sorry!  Thanks for catching that and giving me some direction.  I want 
> > to be clear on the best way to proceed...  If I create a 2.14 branch, 
> > shall I undo (revert) the goption usage on that branch?  Sorry if this 
> > is obvious.
> >     
>
> There are no stupid question :)
>
> If you plan to do other releases in the future for 2.14.x, you should
> definitively create a branch without the goption part and it would
> probably be easier to start this branch just before goption was added in
> CVS. To be clear, the problem in goption patch is usage of
> 'G_OPTION_ARG_DOUBLE' which is glib 2.11.x material.
>
> If you don't plan to do any 2.14.x releases, don't bother creating 2.14
> branch, but it would be great for distributions packagers (and probably
> other people) so change gok versioning so people knows they are using an
> "unstable" release.
>
>   
For sure.  I will try to pay attention to the versioning expectations 
from now on.

cheers,
D