On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 23:59 +0000, Jared Meidal wrote:
There have been a lot of excellent developments to be release in the next release, including C++, cairo, alignment/distribution along with new possible builds on win64-bit (Partha's help), and native Mac OS X (some almost-ready builds are out there). If these all reach maturity for the release the new builds are providing an increase audience and userbase. A changing version numbering scheme could reflect the developers' acknowledgement of this and demonstrate the activity of the software project.
You make a persuasive argument. I like the idea of moving from 0.49 to 5.0 with the idea that a 0.49 release is likely to uncover lots of bugs from our massive list of changes.
But whatever we do, I also like having a defined list of what would certify us for such a big release PR type event.
Martin,