On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
If we don't change inkscape:version in the document and don't introduce a new field, then it would be impossible to use the trunk for any work between the time an XML fix is introduced, and the time the stable version is released.
This is probably the number one mistaken assumption.
It definitely is *not* impossible to make things work. A *simple* approach to a solution is to use a compatibility number, but that is most definitely not the *only* way to do it.
There are many, many other ways to approach this, and SVG even has explicit support for some such mechanisms.
Merging XML fixes just before a release is an extremely bad idea, since there would be much less time to test them.
That is really just a straw-man argument, and most definitely is not what I was proposing.