[PD-dev] release pd 0.52 update?

[Thomas Mayer]

Hello,

On 15.10.22 22:00, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> imho, a "bugfix release" is a promise to the user that says "nothing has 
> changed with respect to the previous release, except we fixed these 
> annoying bugs".
> so i worry not about "features" but about "anything not a bugfix".
> 
> and with 0.52-3, plenty of things have changed (and a few annoying bugs 
> have been fixed as well).
> ~70 C-files have been modified, and 3 header files have been modified 
> (suggesting additions to the API)
> 
> so i just fail to understand why we can't just call it "0.53-0", as this 
> clearly is beyond a "bugfix" release.

I fully agree with IOhannes. Someone may need a bugfix for their concert 
next week and they are positively surprised by getting this bugfix just 
in time, while being negatively surprised by the regression during their 
performance. Signalling big changes by version number is a good thing.

Not every user read the release info or changelog, as to most this is 
unintelligable gibberish (What exactly does "rework of GUI code" mean to 
an end user?)

Just my 0,02€,
Thomas
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