Merry X-Mas and 3.0 release after the holidays - date not yet decided

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Mon Jan 2 08:46:15 PST 2012


On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:
>        Whatever happened to the old principle for three part numbers
>
> <abi level>.<feature level>.<fix level>
>
>        Bug fix releases bump the fix level, new features bump the feature
> level and zero the fix level, big changes that break backwards
> compatibility bump the abi level.

Release numbers seem to go completely with feature releases these
days.  Whether that's a good or bad thing is up to the viewer.

I only recall 1 ABI change... have we had more?





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