[Xastir] Latest OSM tweaks

[Scott Evans]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 16:06 -0700, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> Historically we haven't been bumping it in-between stable releases.
> When we do a stable release we bump the last number to an even
> number, then immediately after the release we bump it up one for
> development.  At least it looks like we've been doing it that way
> since 2006.
> 
> We have a few conflicting requirements:
> 
> *) The APRS scheme of three digits ("APX" in our case) and three
>     numbers for the version number in each APRS packet.  This limits
>     us to three digits total.  If we go to 1.10.0 or 1.9.10, there's
>     no place for the fourth digit unless we go to "APX191-0",
>     "APX191-1", etc, a potential conflict with earlier revisions for
>     the "-0" case.
> 
> *) Trying not to get to 2.0.0 'cuz that's historically where we were
>     going to start Xastir-2 or Xastir-NG.
> 
> *) The open-source numbering scheme:  First number is the major
>     revision.  Second number is minor revision, often with an odd
>     number for devel, even number for releases.  Last number is
>     patch-level.  We don't quite comply with this: 

I realise that I was not using xastir in the days that 2.0 was going to
be a new rewrite (or whatever!) but surely that could be bumped to 3.0 ?
take GNOME for example, the big announcement that 3.0 was essentially
going to be GNOME 2.30

just me 2 cents on the versioning...

-- 
Scott Evans <scott at vk7hse.hobby-site.org>


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