library versioning

[Biju Chacko]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Jeff Franks wrote:
> 
>> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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). ;-)
>>>
>>>
>> Blackbox, WindowMaker, snore..., snore..., ten years..., Xfce5..., god 
>> I hope not!
> 
> 
> I think its a very good thing, if we could live with Xfce4 for the next 
> ten years. Ten years with mostly one codebase would tell a lot about the 
> quality of the code (tho, I doubt we'll manage it).

I think Jeff has a wrong idea of what kind of magnitude of changes 
require a major version number change.

3 to 4 was a ground up re-write with absolutely no common code. That is 
the kind of changes we'd be looking at for Xfce5.

There's nothing to stop us from going up indefinitely -- my guess is 
that if we continue at the current rate we'll probably go to 4.8 or 4.10 
before we decide to go to 5 and at that point it won't be a ground up 
rewrite but just major refactoring.

-- b