How to indicate API version properly (taking in account next release)?

2006-08-09 Thread Quentin Mathé
Hi, I would like to know whether there is any way to indicate the next GNUstep release for GS_API_VERSION macro. For example, when you add a new method, it will be available only with the next release, but at the time you commit header/ implementation update related you cannot know for sure

Re: How to indicate API version properly (taking in account next release)?

2006-08-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
Hi Quentin, I may not understand your problem correctly, but if you only want to make sure that the new functionality is available and you know that it was not available at a certain release version of GNUstep, but will be in what ever version comes next. Then it should be possible to just use the

Re: How to indicate API version properly (taking in account next release)?

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 9 Aug 2006, at 11:14, Quentin Mathé wrote: Hi, I would like to know whether there is any way to indicate the next GNUstep release for GS_API_VERSION macro. For example, when you add a new method, it will be available only with the next release, but at the time you commit header/ imple

Re: How to indicate API version properly (taking in account next release)?

2006-08-09 Thread Adam Fedor
On Aug 9, 2006, at 7:10 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: I understand the problem, but I don't think the best solution is to add new macros and scripting. Rather, I think it's to adopt a slightly more rigorous approach to making releases. What I propose is this ... When we make a release

Re: How to indicate API version properly (taking in account next release)?

2006-08-09 Thread Quentin Mathé
Le 9 août 06 à 17:20, Adam Fedor a écrit : On Aug 9, 2006, at 7:10 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: I understand the problem, but I don't think the best solution is to add new macros and scripting. Rather, I think it's to adopt a slightly more rigorous approach to making releases. What

Re: How to indicate API version properly (taking in account next release)?

2006-08-09 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 09.08.2006 um 12:14 schrieb Quentin Mathé: For example, when you add a new method, it will be available only with the next release, but at the time you commit header/ implementation update related you cannot know for sure what will be the next version number of the library. One solutio