Versioning

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 14:08 +0100, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> >>> It seems like libqmi is getting stable enough to use now, and I then
> >>> wonder if you have considered making a release?
> >>>
> >>> This would make it easier to have something to base testing of packaging
> >>> for distributions on.
> >>>
> >>> An alpha/<1.0 version would be enough.
> >>>
> >> I don't really have any objection, truth be told. That would make easier
> >> to package the new ModemManager whenever it's released.
> > 
> > Yes, you probably need to say in the release notes of ModemManager 0.7
> > that it requires libqmi >= x.y.z (I assume that it can be newer or does
> > it break backwards compatibility?).
> > 
> 
> We will definitely avoid breaking the libqmi-glib API, so in
> ModemManager we'll treat it as any other external library. As soon as we
> get the first release out, MM will very likely just use >= x.y.z when
> looking for it. Note anyway that MM can be compiled using --without-qmi,
> so it won't be a hard build dependency.

I too think we're at the point where we should make a release.  And
breaking with open-source tradition, how about 1.0? :)

Dan