On 10/15/2011 09:57 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 10/15/2011 02:49 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >> I am still curious about 1.5.0 and how likely it is that it will take >> as long. But I realize that prognostications about software releases are >> like weather forecasts: the further in the future the less reliable. > > I don't think the problems of one stable version portend the problems of > the next. This has been unusual this time, and the problems we might see > with 1.5.0 will not likely be connected to anything we're going through > now. This is in spite of the number of changes that have come about in > 1.5.0. > > Greg >
Actually, the gap between 1.5.x and a 1.6 release will be much much shorter. There are already a lot of new features and refactoring from 1.4.x which we cannot do in 1.4.x. Also, we are not doing the kind of rewriting that Qt3 > Qt4 required. Cheers, Peter
