[vlc-devel] The case for 2.0

Laurent Aimar fenrir at elivagar.org
Fri Jan 6 20:33:48 CET 2012


On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 07:51:03PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I strongly believe that we should rename VLC 1.2, aka Twoflower, as 2.0.
> 
> First, that would be to match "Twoflower" name :)
> 
> Then, VLC 1.2 is way beyond and different from 1.1... We have closed
> more than 10% of the bugs on the bugtracker during this long period.
> So many things have changed, that a stronger rupture should be done,
> IMVHO.
> 
> Then, it is more simple for users to understand than our scheme.
> 
> Then, we have a scheme of one stable/one trunk, so we only need x.y as a
> numbering.
> 
> Then, the change to LGPL of libVLC is quite important.

 No objections from me, and if you plan to use x.y instead of x.y.z version
scheme, it might be simpler for users.

Regards,

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fenrir




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