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adah1972 / libunibreak

The libunibreak library
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Fix confusion with old naming/version #8

Closed tasn closed 9 years ago

tasn commented 9 years ago

Hey,

I'm opening a ticket since I haven't decided what's the right thing and I'd love to get some input. To get a tarball of the latest version, users should go here: https://github.com/adah1972/libunibreak/releases Looking there, you can see many releases (7 at the time of writing). Two of which are releases using the new library name, and 5 using the old one. The problem is, that a user scanning the list will see strings that look very much alike, so will think they are all the same, and will look at the number thus mistakenly get liblinebreak 2.1 (old) instead of libunibreak 1.1. It almost just happened to me.

I don't know what the correct solution is, maybe it's to release libuniberak 3.0, maybe delete the old releases (pretty bad), maybe to rename the old releases to "old-liblinebreak-*" (pretty bad), or I dunno.

Thoughts?

Tom.

adah1972 commented 9 years ago

I think people will probably look at the dates. However, I won't object to releasing a 3.0 version after we fix the Unicode 7.0 issue you mentioned in another message.

tasn commented 9 years ago

I fixed #9, feel free to release 3.0 whenever you'd like.

Our lack of regression tests (which I've mentioned in a previous ticket) kinda scares me with this release, but from what I can see, everything works as expected.

tasn commented 9 years ago

Hey, are we releasing 3.0? I would like to nudge arch to update to 3.0 the moment it's out. :)

They are apparently using an old version.

adah1972 commented 9 years ago

Let me make some final touches this weekend. In the meanwhile, please help check whether there are any issues or other possible improvements.

adah1972 commented 9 years ago

OK, 3.0 released.