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Re: Version 8 at 25 years
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From: adam smith via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 20:25:12 +0100
Love it!
On Thu, 2 Sept 2021 at 12:22, 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 version 7 will rather soon feel outdated.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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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2021 20:25:12 +0100
Love it!
On Thu, 2 Sept 2021 at 12:22, 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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