[osiris-devel] Why 2.4.3 is not compatible with 2.4.0 (and 2.4.2)??

Brian Wotring brian at shmoo.com
Sat Jan 24 09:41:33 EST 2004


On Jan 23, 2004, at 8:19 PM, Alexei_Roudnev wrote:

> It is violation of the numbering schema - if 2 different versions are 
> nit
> compatible by the network protocol, first digit must change (or at 
> least
> second one)!
>
> I discovered (suddenly) that 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 are not compatible (I 
> think, it
> was due to last change, to align fields). This means, that new version 
> must
> have number 2.5, and it is better to avoid such change at all.

There have been no introduced protocol changes in the 2.x line.  
Release 2.4.3 has not occured yet.  Any changes currently in CVS to 
deal with the alignment issue have been removed.  See my previous post 
for an explanation.

--
     Brian Wotring ( brian at shmoo.com )
     PGP KeyID: 0x9674763D




More information about the osiris-devel mailing list