[Expat-discuss] Re: DESTDIR patches

Karl Waclawek karl at waclawek.net
Sat Jan 1 20:19:31 CET 2005


In Expat, the 1.95.x versions are the build up
to 2.0, sort of the 2.0 beta versions.
The last major version was 1.2.

Karl

Steinar Bang wrote:
>>>>>>Karl Waclawek <karl at waclawek.net>:
> 
> 
>>Expat 2.0 is supposed to be a bug-fixed version of the last few
>>releases, introducing as little incompatibilities as possible.
>>Would this change not be better-suited for post-2.0 Expat, where we
>>intend to make backwards-incompatible modifications?
> 
> 
> I'm thinking version numbers and expectations of binary compatibility.
> 
> It's more expected that a major version bump will introduce binary
> incompatibility, than that a minor version bump will do so.
> 
> When I do bug fix releases, I usually just bump the minor version
> number.  Major version number bumps are used for major enhancements
> and rewrites.
> 
> But YMMV.
> 
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