Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-07-02 Thread Kamil Dudka via curl-library
On Wednesday, July 1, 2020 5:46:53 PM CEST Dan Fandrich via curl-library wrote: > Maybe some of the distros maintaining their own LTS branches of curl would > sponsor such a branch? Right now, there are several people in your shoes, > doing the same difficult job of backporting security fixes usi

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-07-01 Thread James Fuller via curl-library
+1 for LTS pursued along more commercial routes. Jim On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 17:57, Dan Fandrich via curl-library wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:33:55AM +0200, Kamil Dudka via curl-library wrote: > > I think the key question is who would maintain such an LTS branch in > > upstream. > > May

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-07-01 Thread Dan Fandrich via curl-library
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 10:33:55AM +0200, Kamil Dudka via curl-library wrote: > I think the key question is who would maintain such an LTS branch in upstream. Maybe some of the distros maintaining their own LTS branches of curl would sponsor such a branch? Right now, there are several people in

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-07-01 Thread Kamil Dudka via curl-library
On Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:09:02 AM CEST Erik Janssen via curl-library wrote: > > I agree with jumping to the version 8 as long as we define what would be > > the futur scheme post-8. > > > > - Having an important step forward/addition to the project? > > Would it make sense to keep version 7

RE: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-07-01 Thread Erik Janssen via curl-library
Oops! Overlooked the other mail with the same suggestion sorry -Original Message- From: curl-library On Behalf Of Erik Janssen via curl-library Sent: woensdag 1 juli 2020 09:09 To: libcurl development Cc: Erik Janssen Subject: RE: Considering a version 8 at some point... > I ag

RE: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-07-01 Thread Erik Janssen via curl-library
> I agree with jumping to the version 8 as long as we define what would be the > futur scheme post-8. > - Having an important step forward/addition to the project? Would it make sense to keep version 7 as a 'Long Term Support' version that receives bugfixes and security updates but no features?

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Daniel Stenberg via curl-library
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: Before bumping to version 8 at an arbitrarily chosen point in time (for some value of arbitrary given the 200th release), I think it's worth settling what the version scheme will look like post-8. Are we sticking to version 8 "forever" like how we

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Nicolas Sterchele via curl-library
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 02:12:11PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson via curl-library wrote: > > On 30 Jun 2020, at 13:48, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library > > wrote: > > > What do you think? > > Before bumping to version 8 at an arbitrarily chosen point in time (for some > value of arbitrary given the

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Andreas Falkenhahn via curl-library
I wouldn't mind sticking to version 7 for as long as there are no dramatic new features or API changes that'd justify a version bump. I don't like the current trend of bumping version numbers almost every year. For example, it took about 10 years to go from gcc 4.0 to gcc 5.0. Roughly 2005 to 2

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Daniel JeliƄski via curl-library
Hello, Would it be a good time to start a stable (long-term support) version? Like in, version 7 would still get bug fixes, but no new features, and would be maintained until version 9 (or 10) goes out. Regards, Daniel --- Unsubscribe:

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Dennis Clarke via curl-library
On 6/30/20 11:48 AM, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: Hi friends, I've mentioned before that I'd like to see us move on to version 8 before the minor number reaches 100 to avoid confusions. I think we're at too large numbers now - they get hard to remember and are easily mixed up. cu

Re: Considering a version 8 at some point...

2020-06-30 Thread Daniel Gustafsson via curl-library
> On 30 Jun 2020, at 13:48, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library > wrote: > What do you think? Before bumping to version 8 at an arbitrarily chosen point in time (for some value of arbitrary given the 200th release), I think it's worth settling what the version scheme will look like post-8. Are we