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kornelski / rust-rgb

struct RGB for sharing pixels between crates
https://lib.rs/rgb
MIT License
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Release a `v0.9-alpha.1`? #113

Open ripytide opened 3 weeks ago

ripytide commented 3 weeks ago

I've run out of things on my personal checklist and I don't think any of the repo's remaining open issues are actionable for v0.9 either:

Therefore, may I suggest (unless you have any outstanding issues/changes?) that now is the time to publish a v0.9-alpha.1? After the alpha release is out we can start validating the alpha release by migrating some crates currently depending on v0.8. If all goes well then we could proceed with the full release + the semver-trick v0.8, if issues are found then we can fix the issues, release another alpha release and repeat the cycle as many times as necessary. How does that sound?

kornelski commented 3 weeks ago

Originally I was thinking about having 0.9 import 0.8 for compatibility, which would give 0.9 alpha releases back-compat.

But with the semver trick used in the other direction, it may make more sense to start with v0.8.999-alpha, so that it can be tested including interaction with 0.8 crates.

ripytide commented 3 weeks ago

Interesting, so you mean releasing the current 0.9 branch as a v0.8.999-alpha release since it is non-breaking and so removing the need for a 0.9 release, except for when removing the legacy stuff?

kornelski commented 3 weeks ago

Yes, the current 0.9 needs to be released as 0.8-something to be interoperable with the other 0.8 crates. 0.9 with legacy turned on only has source code compatibility, but not backwards-compatible types across crates.

ripytide commented 2 weeks ago

Sounds good. That would also let us deprecate the legacy stuff gently over a long period of time to encourage users to switch over to the new traits and other stuff.

kornelski commented 2 weeks ago

A massive disappointment: Cargo won't unify v0.8.44 with v0.8.90-alpha.1. Not even when requiring rgb = ">0.7,<0.9".

This complicates testing a lot.