Stefan Stefan Seefeld wrote:
Thomas Witt wrote:
Yes it is meaningless, but is it worth the effort? Personally I don't think so, we have bigger fish to fry.
I have to admit that I don't have any idea of the efford. I would guess it is a single configuration item in some Jamfile or somesuch.
Well Murphy says it's certainly more than one place. Even if it's just a single place there is the effort of communicating that change.
Agreed, we do need a way to identify patch releases. There is a clear distinction between the kind of changes allowed in a 1.X and a 1.X.Y release.
Yes, though these questions only concern the release management (i.e. developers).
I am not sure I understand you correctly. AFAICS this is of concern to the users in terms of API compatibility, likeliness of regressions and such. Thomas -- Thomas Witt witt@acm.org