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[J C Lawrence]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:01:06 -0400 
Barry A Warsaw <barry@zope.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "JCL" == J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> writes:

> You've been reading my mind, you know.  I've been hesitant to
> suggest this, but for quite some time I've thought that the next
> release ought to be 3.0 intead of 2.1.  I've stopped short of that
> because 1) what I promised would be in a 2.1 release; 2) I've been
> talking about "MM2.1" for so long now; 3) all the things I've been
> pushing off to MM3.0.

Heh.  It sounds like in the tradition of all the best open source
projects all the real work for 3.0 ill be done in 2.x with the 3.0
release being a retrospective, "Oh yeah, that worked!" release.

> I really really really want to get the next release out as soon as
> possible.  I don't want a decision to call this thing MM3.0 to
> mean a delay in the release schedule.  But truth-in-advertising
> makes me think it really should be called 3.0.  OTOH, will that
> deter too many people from upgrading?  Sigh, I don't know.
> Opinions?

Leave it at 2.1.  It doesn't hurt anything.  Changing would hurt
things.  We can always roll 3.0 later when we change the background
colours for the web forms or something.

> I'd like to make a final decision on this by the first beta.
> (Remember, there /will/ be one more alpha... RSN! ;).

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn about version numbers.

JCL> Definitions at each level which lower levels CANNOT override.

JCL> Definitions at each level which provide defaults, but which can
JCL> be overridden.

> This is much more what I've been thinking of doing.  

Excellent.

> You're right that doing it the other way would probably be just
> too complicated and error prone.

The thing I like about spitting them that way is that we can make
the UI modal (you see #1 or #2) so you only see that set of
definitions.  Given clear lead in statements it should be workable.

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