Re: [libvirt] RFC: Changing version number at start of dev cycle instead of end

On 12/11/2013 09:44 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Currently throughout the dev cycle we stick on the current release > number. The release number in configure.ac is only changed by DV > when he is actually cutting the release. > > The solution here is fairly simple. We should increase the version > number in configure.ac at the *start* of each release cycle. This > means that libvirt-python can use the next version number and things > will 'just work'. I don't think this is a burden really - we already > encode the next version number in our source code when tagging new > APIs or driver methods. We're really just bringing autoconf's view > of the version number inline with the rest of the code. > > > So if no one objects, we should immediately change configure.ac to > be 1.2.1 Makes sense to me, but I'd wait for DV to concur.

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