MMN and branches (was Re: svn commit: r307031)

2005-10-10 Thread Joe Orton
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:51:51PM -0500, William Rowe wrote: Joe Orton wrote: I'd suggest just incrementing the MMN by one rather than bumping it by date on the branch unless and until the API is the same as the trunk. I previously considered that. Although you are right; they are out of

Re: MMN and branches (was Re: svn commit: r307031)

2005-10-10 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Joe Orton wrote: c) don't backport ABI changes to branches; a branch much fork from a specific MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER_MAJOR and must be rebased entirely to move to a new major - avoids the problem entirely It's always this way on even branches, but we are talking about odd #'ed branches,