On Wednesday 14 Jun 2006 16:16, D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: > Every time I've suggested this > sort of thing (eg. dropping the silly -4 from Rosegarden-4, and encouraging > distros to quietly disappear the old package), you've gotten nostalgic > about the old Rosegarden.
I wondered if that was it, but I'm not sure where that idea came from. My own opinion is pretty clear in the rosegardenmusic.com website, which calls the program Rosegarden throughout, omits the 4 entirely except when referring to package names, and refers to RG2 as "X11 Rosegarden". As far as I'm concerned, the current program is Rosegarden v1.2.3. That said, I do seem to have kept the 4 in the release announcements (not quite sure why). As you know, this is all just a practical problem stemming right from our earliest releases of the new version of the program. It had to have a 4 (or some number bigger than 2) in it somewhere, because there already was an older 2.1, but the early releases couldn't just be 4.x because we wanted to make it clear they weren't just newer stable versions, so we took that rather whimsical decision to call the program "Rosegarden-4" and the version "0.1" or whatever. It would have been much simpler in hindsight to rename the program completely. I'm all for dropping the 4, but I still don't see quite how that can work in any distro that still has any record of the existence of a version 2 that is older than the current version 1. Not to mention in Gentoo, which I seem to remember decided to call the package Rosegarden and the release number 4.1.0 or something. Chris _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
