[Proj] Time for a new release?

Joaquim Luis jmfluis at gmail.com
Fri Nov 10 14:03:40 EST 2017


On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:24:16 -0000, Charles Karney  
<charles.karney at sri.com> wrote:

> 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.

Fully agree.

Joaquim


>
>    --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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