[PD-dev] release pd 0.52 update?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

I guess I don't understand the meaning of 'regression' actually.

Anyway, I see some of my help files updates were considering 0.53, like the
unification of sliders, so yeah, even though there's not much new, there it
is :)

Em dom., 16 de out. de 2022 às 13:47, Alexandre Torres Porres <
porres at gmail.com> escreveu:

> What are the regressions? I could only see bug fixes.
>
> Em sáb., 15 de out. de 2022 às 17:01, IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>
> escreveu:
>
>> Am 14. Oktober 2022 18:13:00 MESZ schrieb Alexandre Torres Porres
>> <porres at gmail.com>:
>> >Em sex., 14 de out. de 2022 às 12:12, IOhannes m zmölnig <
>> zmoelnig at iem.at>
>> >escreveu:
>> >
>> >> Am 14. Oktober 2022 15:32:42 MESZ schrieb Antoine Rousseau <
>> >> antoine at metalu.net>:
>> >> >has been made obsolete by the
>> >> >recent rework of the interface to GUI
>> >>
>> >> Speaking of which: I think a bugfix release 0.52.3 should probably
>> *not*
>> >> contain the "rework of the interface to GUI", which is a rather big
>> >> change...
>> >>
>> >
>> >Why not? We're talking about things that had already been merged before,
>>
>> So what?
>>
>> i'm not really sure i understand what you mean exactly with "have been
>> merged before".
>> the fact that the PRs have already been merged into master?
>> how is that related to "bugfix release"?
>>
>>
>> >right? It seems to me most changes are "under the hood" and not proper
>> new
>> >features.
>>
>>
>> And all of them include regressions.
>>
>>
>> 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'm probably highly influenced by semantic versioning [1], which is
>> targetting versioning for libraries (API/ABI compatibility) rather than
>> applications, but i think the model is so great that it can be applied
>> to any software (that is not released very frequently).
>>
>> in any case: i'm not the one who is deciding on the versioning.
>>
>>
>> gfmdsa
>> IOhannes
>>
>>
>> [1] https://semver.org/
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