On Sat, 1 Jul 2023, Sven Barth via lazarus wrote:
Maxim Ganetsky via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> schrieb am Fr.,
30. Juni 2023, 15:48:
30.06.2023 16:44, Maxim Ganetsky via lazarus пишет:
30.06.2023 14:27, Martin Frb via lazarus пишет:
On 30/06/2023 12:51, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote:
On Friday, June 30, 2023, John Landmesser via lazarus <
lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
perhaps that should have become 3.00 ?
Lazarus *3.99* (rev main_3_99-41-g3d8dd85474) FPC 3.2.2
x86_64-linux-gtk2
You are looking at trunk, the development version. See :
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Version_Numbering#Lazarus_3.0_and_newer
You might want to add some explanation for this new versioning
scheme to that page.
Added.
I made some improvements, hope it is even more clear now.
The graph does not help.
From what is currently there, I don't understand neither the logic
nor the need of this change.
"Need"... Well, in terms of "because it solved the issue xyz" => then
there is no need.
Basically, version numbering is all about "marketing". By always
increasing major version we tell to the general audience that major
release indeed contains major changes (which is always the case).
So we solve/improve "marketing" issues.
BTW, in my opinion FPC has similar issues and will benefit from such
approach to versioning too.
In FPC the major number *has* a meaning, namely that there have been
significant changes in the code generator. Towards the 2.x series it was
the rewrite of the different backends and for the 3.x series it was the
introduction of the high level code generator.
The minor number is then to signify a new release with many new features on
top of the same base architecture and the release number is then to
differentiate between development and stable.
We don't follow "marketing".
It might be wise to communicate or document this somewhere: either on wiki or
website.
I work almost 30 years on FPC, and even I didn't know this.
Michael.
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