On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 01:22:02PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library wrote: > 2. We call that release 8.0.0 > > 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.
My feelings exactly, I could also imagine some problems with having a user-agent that would contain a 3-digit curl version as some websites might check only the first two digits. > 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 sticks with version 7 will rather soon feel outdated. Sure, and even if we need to change any compatability for whatever reason in future we can simply bump the number again. Cheers, Emil -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
