[alsa-devel] alsa-lib 1.0.21a release

James Courtier-Dutton james.dutton at gmail.com
Mon Sep 21 14:23:03 CEST 2009


2009/9/21 Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Tony Vroon wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 12:19 +0200, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>>> I've complained about this for years...
>>
>> It wasn't deemed worthy a reply, so apparently nobody cares.
>> Ah well.
>
> I care, but it's sometimes difficult to change old habits ;-( I hope to
> remember new versioning scheme for a next release. The last ALSA release
> versions ending with a character are just quick fixes, so just increase
> the package release version for your distro and add a small patch with
> changes.
>
>                                        Jaroslav
>

One could just move to a 4 number scheme with the last number being
minor fixes. Much like the linux kernel release numbers.
What would have to change to move from ALSA 1.0.x.x to 1.1.x.x ?
What would have to change to move from ALSA 1.x.x.x to 2.x.x.x


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