Xorg version number change

[Ely Levy]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Roland Mainz wrote:

> Egbert Eich wrote:
> > Roland Mainz writes:
> >  > Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> >  > > This change doesn't look right.  The 6.8.1 release is on the
> >  > > XORG-6_8-branch, and that's where 6.8.2 will come from.  HEAD is going
> >  > > to be 6.9.0 or 7.0 or whatever gets decided.
> >  >         ^^^^^    ^^^
> >  >
> >  > Please NO. Please simply stop this version number inflation. Even for
> >  > the last release it wasn't really justified to bump the version number
> >  > to 6.8 where 6.7.1 was sufficient (AFAIK the only argument was the
> >  > introduction of the "Composite", "DAMAGE" etc. extensions).
> >  > IMO the next major release should be named X11R6.8.2 unless something
> >  > really really big changes (and if I recall it correctly X11R7 is
> >  > reserved for the autotooled tree right now).
> >
> > It has been argeed upon that the x.x.y rleases with y > 1 are bugfix
> > and security update releases for the x.x.0 releases. That decisison
> > has been reflected in the branch sceme of the tree.
>
> Sounds reasonable. Hopefully noone complains when X11R6.10.0 gets
> released (which alphabetically sorts lower than "X11R6.9.0"... :) ...
> =:-)
>
We can always call it X11R6.X.0 ;))

Ely