Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync flag day justifies bumping version number to 1.0

[hendrik]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:06:12PM +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am of the opinion that the next version of monotone should be 1.0 because of
> the netsync flag day.
> 
> This would allow us, maintainers of monotone in Debian, to provide two
> versions of monotone in parallel: monotone (the latest) and monotone0 (0.44),
> or monotone1 and monotone.  This would allow people to have both versions
> installed at the same time, without a clash.
> 
> I think this would be desirable because Debian 5.0 "Lenny" contains version
> 0.40, runs on many servers including www.ada-france.org, and will remain in
> service for at least another two years.  Thus the transition period for the
> netsync change cannot be shorter than that.

I suppose the other option would be for monotone to detect which 
versions of netsync are available at the other end, and use whichever is 
the most recent.  That way you could upgrade and still be compatible 
with those who haven't.  Whether this is technically feasible (is enough 
information available in the data base to support both protocols?  Does 
the netsync protocol have a version-number field somewhere in an early 
packet?) I don't know.

It looks as if monotone is used in enough places that a flag day is a 
big event, and not just something that can be handled informally in a 
small community.

I guess that's good news....

-- hendrik