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

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 1/30/07, Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com> 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+

Note that we have no 2.16.x releases planned past 2.16.3 (which is
scheduled to be released tomorrow).

> 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.

That would be great; it'd help a lot.