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Re: Version 8 at 25 years
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From: Chu Ngọc Hưng via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 21:26:12 +0700
Me too
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 at 21:20 Caroline & Gil Brenner via curl-library <
curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
> Please take me off these mailing lists
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 7:22 AM Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <
> curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On March 20, 2023 (more than 18 months away) curl turns 25 years old.
>> Assuming
>> we're all still around then.
>>
>> I propose that we take that opportunity to do these two things:
>>
>> 1. Make a curl release on that exact date.
>>
>> The current 8 week cycle would right now put the release on the 29th so
>> it's
>> not going to change the date by much, and chances are the dates will be
>> slightly shifted before then anyway.
>>
>> 2. We call that release 8.0.0
>>
>> ... completely independently of what version we released immediately
>> before
>> then and disregarding what we add or not in that release. We've been
>> ever-incresing the minor version number since the year 2000, and I've
>> been
>> struggling to figure out how to avoid us reaching 100 and thereby
>> possible
>> cause confusion among users.
>>
>> I don't want to bump the soname or change any compatiblity or APIs
>> because of
>> this. I just want us to work with smaller numbers for a while. I hope
>> that one
>> of the benefits with bumping the major number is that everyone who sticks
>> with
>> version 7 will rather soon feel outdated.
>>
>> PS. Back in I 2013 blogged about why there won't be a version 8 "in a
>> long
>> time"[*]. I think ten years can be considered "a long time" =)
>>
>> [*] = https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/03/23/why-no-curl-8/
>>
>> There's plenty of time left and things might change. This just struck me
>> as a
>> decent plan.
>>
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>>
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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 21:26:12 +0700
Me too
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 at 21:20 Caroline & Gil Brenner via curl-library <
curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
> Please take me off these mailing lists
>
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 7:22 AM Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <
> curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On March 20, 2023 (more than 18 months away) curl turns 25 years old.
>> Assuming
>> we're all still around then.
>>
>> I propose that we take that opportunity to do these two things:
>>
>> 1. Make a curl release on that exact date.
>>
>> The current 8 week cycle would right now put the release on the 29th so
>> it's
>> not going to change the date by much, and chances are the dates will be
>> slightly shifted before then anyway.
>>
>> 2. We call that release 8.0.0
>>
>> ... completely independently of what version we released immediately
>> before
>> then and disregarding what we add or not in that release. We've been
>> ever-incresing the minor version number since the year 2000, and I've
>> been
>> struggling to figure out how to avoid us reaching 100 and thereby
>> possible
>> cause confusion among users.
>>
>> I don't want to bump the soname or change any compatiblity or APIs
>> because of
>> this. I just want us to work with smaller numbers for a while. I hope
>> that one
>> of the benefits with bumping the major number is that everyone who sticks
>> with
>> version 7 will rather soon feel outdated.
>>
>> PS. Back in I 2013 blogged about why there won't be a version 8 "in a
>> long
>> time"[*]. I think ten years can be considered "a long time" =)
>>
>> [*] = https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/03/23/why-no-curl-8/
>>
>> There's plenty of time left and things might change. This just struck me
>> as a
>> decent plan.
>>
>> --
>>
>> / daniel.haxx.se
>> | Commercial curl support up to 24x7 is available!
>> | Private help, bug fixes, support, ports, new features
>> | https://curl.se/support.html
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