On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Jon Senior <j...@restlesslemon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:07:23 +0200 > Jiří Techet <tec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > just one very quick and possibly stupid idea. How about getting rid of > > the 0 version prefix and calling the next release 1.0? This would be > > just numbering change, not some milestone based on features that have > > to be implemented (similarly to renumbering linux kernel from 2.6.x to > > 3.0). > > > > Rationale: the 0.xx versioning scheme makes an impression that Geany > > is something very unstable that crashes every five minutes and whose > > first release was made a few months back. Instead, Geany is a very > > stable and reliable editor with lots of features and several years of > > history. > > > > I know there are some 1.0 TODOs here: > > > > http://www.geany.org/Documentation/ToDo > > > > like the ABI stability for plugins and other features. But > > > > 1. Will the ABI be ever considered stable? Is it really needed? (All > > the plugins I know are open source and the combined plugin project is > > kept in sync with the development release so there's no real problem > > even if the API changes). > > > > 2. I think there's no need to require some specific features for the > > 1.0 release. The current set of features makes already a very good > > editor and extra features can always be introduced in later versions. > > > > I already find Geany more usable for my needs than editors having 2011 > > as their version number so I believe it deserves the 1 prefix. What is > > your opinion? > > As a quiet reader of this mailing list and (very) occasional > contributor, I agree wholeheartedly. I've been using geany as my > principle IDE for the last 4 years, the last three of which have been > spent as a professional developer. Firefox (now on version 4) crashes > at least twice a week (although mainly due to Flash). Netbeans (version > 7.0) ties itself in a knot at least once a week, while consuming all > available resources. OpenOffice (version 3) will occasionally just > vanish without even an error message, sheepishly offering me the chance > to recover documents on restart. Through all of this geany goes from > reboot to reboot without dropping a byte. I think it's time to > recognise that! :-) > +1. But I needed to learn C for some program of mine which uses GTK+. So I hope to look through the code and contribute to Geany :) > > Jon > _______________________________________________ > Geany-devel mailing list > Geany-devel@uvena.de > https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel > -- Nick
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