[wx-dev] Re: 2.8, 2.10, 3

[Stefan Csomor]

Hi Bryan
> On 10/19/07, Vadim Zeitlin <vadim at wxwidgets.org> wrote:
>   
>>  This doesn't work quite like this. 2.8 is relatively recent (and many
>> projects are still using 2.6 and some are on 2.4 yet...) and you can't
>> expect everybody to switch to 2.10 immediately. So for some time we will
>> have to spend at least some effort on 2.8 and 2.10.
>>
>>  And in any case this will distract us from 3.0 and I'm really, really
>> worried that it can have very negative consequences. I'd strongly prefer to
>> concentrate on releasing 3.0 a.s.a.p., e.g. in the first half of 2008
>> (which means that we must make 2.9.0 in November).
>>     
>
> This was the conclusion that the last discussion of a 2.10 release
> came to, and I agree with Vadim. My own application hasn't even made a
> release on 2.8 (we're close, but still not there) to replace the
> current version built on 2.6. The entire Gentoo world still hasn't
> seen a wxWidgets 2.8 ebuild either to replace the 2.6 version. It's
> not just that it's too early to be branching a new stable tree, but
> it's also true that maintenance will still need to be kept up on the
> 2.8 branch regardless of a 2.10 release being released, and I have no
> doubt that this will significantly delay progress on 3.0.
>   
but if a 2.10.0 is nothing else then a 2.8.8 with a few binary 
incompatible changes, then I still don't get why everybody insists on 
staying on 2.8... it just is not the same as the difference between 2.6 
and 2.8 except the distance on a numeric scale ...

Best,

Stefan