On 7/5/06, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The disagreement and confusion is having and publicly using "1" and "2" labels. Do we use them internally? Do we use them publicly?
Everything we do is public. There aren't any secret internal-use labels.
What do these labels mean? Do they identify generations like Java and Java2 or Win9x and WinNT, or do they identify major version number?
In the case of Apache Struts, the notion of a "generation" and "major version" are the same. So long as we can keep one release backwardly-compatible with another, we have always chosen to increment the minor version number, even if the feature set has been significantly expanded. We have said for years that the only reason we would increment the major version number was because the new version was *not* 100% backwardly compatible with the existing version. Other people might call that a generation. We call it a revolution. The numerals are *not* labels. The numerals 1 and 2 indicate the major release series. Depending on what happens with phase 2, that could become Struts 3 or it might just be Struts 2.1. The litmus test for us has always been backward-compatibility. -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
