Love it! On Thu, 2 Sept 2021 at 12:22, Daniel Stenberg via curl-library < curl-library@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 version 7 will rather soon feel outdated.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 > -- > Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/listinfo/curl-library > Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html >
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