[Proj] Time for a new release?

Charles Karney charles.karney at sri.com
Fri Nov 10 13:24:16 EST 2017


Yes and no on "PROJ.4 v 5.0.0".  I agree that it sounds contradictory.
However the name PROJ.4 is firmly baked into many places; e.g., PROJ4 is
the Cmake package name.  So I vote for "PROJ.4 v 5.0.0" since it signals
a major change and yet won't needless causes other things to break.

   --Charles

On 11/10/17 10:51, Howard Butler wrote:
> I'm interested to hear other opinions, although I suppose version
> numbering is the ultimate bike shedding exercise. I agree it's going
> to cause churn, and that churn was my primary objection to
> incrementing the name in the first place. That said, it seems
> dissonant to me to call it PROJ.4 v 5.0.0.


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