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| author | Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk> | 2010-12-30 17:00:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Withnall <philip@tecnocode.co.uk> | 2010-12-30 17:00:03 +0000 |
| commit | 065bb38c3b107b2e3574496a8d6e848fd537d7a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 6532d245ddd6391915d5aa4f24890febca4d89c0 /HACKING | |
| parent | 9b42c97c5562c6937b4efcaedf5b82c99d6bd3f3 (diff) | |
| download | libgdata-065bb38c3b107b2e3574496a8d6e848fd537d7a5.tar.gz | |
docs: Add a note about the even–odd/stable–unstable versioning change
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@@ -116,9 +116,10 @@ Adding public API - New services should be implemented in libgdata itself, not by applications which use libgdata. See the documentation section on "New Services" in the "GData Overview" section. - - New API must never be added in a micro release. API additions can only be made in a major or minor release; this is to prevent the LT version of - one minor version's micro releases exceeding the LT version of the next minor version as almost happened between versions 0.6.3 and 0.7.0. - See http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Libtool-versioning.html for information about libtool's versioning system. + - New API must never be added in a stable micro release. API additions can only be made in a major or minor release; this is to prevent the LT version + of one minor version's micro releases exceeding the LT version of the next minor version as almost happened between versions 0.6.3 and 0.7.0. + See http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Libtool-versioning.html for information about libtool's versioning system. See also the + “Versioning” section below. Choosing function names ======================= @@ -173,3 +174,12 @@ the following format "tag: Short explanation". The following tags are valid: - youtube: for the YouTube code in gdata/services/youtube. The only commits which should not have a tag are translation commits, touching only the po directory. + +Versioning +========== + +Starting with version 0.9.0, libgdata has adopted an even–odd/stable–unstable versioning policy, where odd minor version numbers are unstable releases, +released periodically (with increasing micro version numbers) and leading to a stable release with the next even minor version number. API breaks are +allowed in micro releases with an odd minor version number, but not in micro releases with an even minor version number. + +It is encouraged to make a new micro release of an odd minor series after each large API addition or break. |