William Stein wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Robert Bradshaw > <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: >> On Oct 24, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Jason Grout wrote: >> >>> mhampton wrote: >>> >>>> One thing that was mentioned on another thread is that the version >>>> number for sage-4.1.2 was quite misleading. It would help a lot if >>>> the version numbers were more grounded in reality. One simple change >>>> might be to not pick the version number until a final release has >>>> been >>>> decided on. Perhaps we could call the next release "sage-next" until >>>> it is finalized. >>> +1 >> +1 from me too. > > -1 from me, from both a social and technical perspective. > > 1. Technical: It will be a huge amount of work and introduce all kinds > of bugs (technically) if we call the next release "sage-next" instead > of what it will actually be, and I suspect it will be confusing > (socially) as well. As just one example, if you were to upgrade > Sage from version 4.1.2 to version "next", then upgrading to version > 4.2 from "next" would be completely broken. > > 2. Social: It is very common for trac comments, comments in source > code, discussion in email, etc., to have references such as "this > fixes a problem in sage-x.y.z.alpha2", or "this was merged into > sage-x.y.z.alpha3", or "we fixed this in sage-x.y.z.alpha1 so expect > to see this in sage-x.y.z when it is released". There are hundreds of > such comments connected with every single release. All such comments > become meaningless if x.y.z is replaced by "next". > > Neither of these problems is insurmountable. But I don't have the > time or inclination myself to surmount them.
So it sounds like the main problem is that the name "sage-next" would apply to lots of different releases. How about making it more specific, like "sage-4.1.2-next"? Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
