On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Hanno Schlichting <hanno@hannosch.eu> wrote:
If it is intended to be backwards compatible and seems to be so, I'd say go with 1.3. It sounds like a new package dependency, like we have had many others in minor releases.
Since when were new dependencies not considered features?
They are of course. In my vocabulary a version consists of major. minor . micro (or patchlevel). Going from 1.2 to 2.0 is a major new feature release. Going from 1.2 to 1.3 is a minor new feature release. Package dependencies are a new feature and need a new feature release. They cannot be done in "third-dot" or "bug fix" releases. But Lennart didn't ask for that. Hanno