[Bash-completion-devel] Roadmap proposal

[David Paleino]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:50:03 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Saturday 14 February 2009, David Paleino wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:14:29 +0000 (UTC), Freddy Vulto wrote:
> > > [..] maybe we'd better release bash_completion-2 (or ..200902xx) [..]
> >
> > I was starting a branch for the release process... what version number you
> > believe is "sane"?
> >
> > I'd start at 1.0, (so as not to be necessarily linked to the bash version),
> > and the "date" format is kinda weird to me.
> 
> Going from 200902xx to 1.0 (or just about anything else) will cause some
> headaches with package updates.  In rpm land Epoch would need to be used, 

In Debian too. We'd need an Epoch of 3, resulting in a package version 3:1.0-1.
That's what Epochs are used for :)

> dunno about other package formats but I suppose they have similar
> mechanisms. I have no problem with that, it's obviously doable, just thought
> I'd mention it in case someone didn't think of it.

I already thought at that. Do other distributions have mechanisms to handle
this? RPM is ok, Deb is ok -- what about Gentoo's/Exherbo's ebuilds?

> I wouldn't have any problem with sticking with date based versions either,
> but I suppose it would be confusing in case someone intends to maintain two
> separate branches (does someone?).

We will.
My intention was to branch out 1.0 (or whatever), do bugfixing-only there and,
at a certain date, release it, while work would continue on master. But then
again, we could do bugfixes releases of 1.0, so we'd branch from there and so
on.

I'd really love to have sane version numbers now.

Kindly,
David

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