Release next major version - how bad could it be?

2012-10-12 Thread Alexander Yakushev
Greetings, This question have already been raised a few times, both on the list and in the bugtracker. I understand that the problem lies in incompatibility of current git/master version with old configuration files. However the gap between 3.4.x and git/master only grows bigger, and it

Re: Release next major version - how bad could it be?

2012-10-12 Thread Uli Schlachter
Evening, On 12.10.2012 16:30, Alexander Yakushev wrote: This question have already been raised a few times, both on the list and in the bugtracker. I understand that the problem lies in incompatibility of current git/master version with old configuration files. No, it doesn't. We never made

Re: Release next major version - how bad could it be?

2012-10-12 Thread Julien Danjou
On Fri, Oct 12 2012, Uli Schlachter wrote: This is where it all started: commit 371ee3e8cc0d7d315e822d4c6f131b068b39f380 Author: Julien Danjou jul...@danjou.info Date: Thu Sep 17 15:05:53 2009 +0200 titlebar: remove Signed-off-by: Julien Danjou jul...@danjou.info So this is

Re: Release next major version - how bad could it be?

2012-10-12 Thread Alexander Yakushev
Urgh. We never did something like that before and I surely hope that most users use the awesome version from their distro. So something that runs during make install wouldn't help them. Also, awesome falls back to the default config when loading the config produces errors, so this shouldn't be