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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2014-10-20 7:19 GMT+02:00 Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> In the past we have used the repo commit number as the stable version
>> number.  I'm not sure this is the best idea as there can be overlapping
>> commit numbers in separate branches.  I would like to propose using
>> something that we can clearly identify as a release version to prevent
>> confusion due to duplicate commit version numbers.  I recently committed
>> the stable release policy to the developers documentation but I
>> intentionally left out the version number section because I wanted to
>> make sure we are on board with the idea.  It would make it clear to
>> developers, users and packagers that they are using a stable release
>> versus a development release.  It also makes it easier to name source
>> and binary packages.  I'm perfectly happy using the good old fashioned
>> numerical triplet (#.#.#).  It's easy for most version comparison
>> functions to deal with.  I suggest for the next stable release we start
>> at the beginning 1.0.0.  If no one objects, I will update the stable
>> release policy and add the code to CMakeLists.txt before we get to the
>> next stable release.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Wayne
>
>
> I'm not in favor of 1.0.0 because this suggests that this is the first
> release after Beta.
> KiCad has a much longer history of  productive use.  I think at least 2.1.x
> - 2 because
> this is very different from what many Linux distributions consider as the
> last KiCad
> stable (old pcb format) and .1 because there has also been a revision of the
> new
> pcb file format to support 32 copper + 32 tech layers. I don't really have
> any strong
> preference for the '.1' part, but we definitely need at least '2' for the
> major version;
> humans are funny creatures and tend to associate version 1 with an inferior
> product.
>
> - Cirilo

I am actually also in favor of the 2 in the major version, just after
the fact that KiCad has had releases before, and that it has all these
major changes we all love.

Nick