Dave, David Abrahams wrote:
Thomas Witt <witt@acm.org> writes:
I'm all for dropping the leading 1. Yes it is meaningless, but is it worth the effort? Personally I don't
David Abrahams wrote: think so, we have bigger fish to fry.
I don't think it takes any significant effort at all to name the next release 34.0 instead of 1.34.0
I think you are underestimating the effort. There is QA, i.e. finding all the places the version number is used. I don't even want to think about library naming schemes and such. Then as mentioned earlier the change has to be communicated to users with respect to rationale and what it means. What is kind of related is the ripple effect for users. See Olivers post with respect to this. This applies to communication too. Think about telling management/legal department you want to move from 1.33 to 34.0 if that does not draw questions I don't know what will. That being said, after thinking about it for a while I have to say I am not really ready to give up on the major version number. If we ever get around modularizing boost this might justify calling it 2.x. Thomas -- Thomas Witt witt@acm.org