library versioning

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jeff Franks wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>> Jeff Franks wrote:
>>
>>> So Brian, getting back to your original email, has all the generated 
>>> talk resulted in anything being decided, yet?
>>
>>
>>
>> unsurprisingly, no ^_~.  i think the only thing that matters is - if 
>> we remember to bump the library major version this time, will that 
>> solve all the problems?  if so, then let's just do that.
> 
> I thought so. I had a thought. A way of keeping everyone happy might be 
> to leave the Xfce4 libs as is, and bump the major version number as you 
> say. Then, make longer term plans for Xfce5 to rationalize its CVS 
> modules, and its library's names and version numbering. This would 
> address both yours and  Benedikts concerns, and no one would be able to 
> complain because things do change between major releases, like Xfce4 -> 
> Xfce5.

Agreed. But you should be aware that most probably, Xfce 5.0 won't be 
released within the next ten years (atleast if we keep our current 
release cycle). ;-)

> Jeff.

Benedikt