[Mesa-dev] Mesa demos

[Zack Rusin]

On Friday 09 July 2010 17:35:36 Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Zack Rusin <zackr at vmware.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 July 2010 15:00:55 Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> So after being of the grid i am resuming my epic on mesa demos.
> >> I set version to 8.0 so it's easy for distro, and as fresh start for
> >> demos on it's own. If no one object i will do the release by the end
> >> of the week (this time i shouldn't find myself in a no connectivity
> >> situation).
> > 
> > Not that I care too much but I thought that when it was discussed a while
> > back on the list the consesus was to keep the Mesa3D numbering scheme.
> > 8.0 doesn't make much sense to me, i.e. having demos for mesa-7.8 in
> > mesa-demos-8.0 is pretty silly.
> 
> No it was not to epoch back to 1.0.0, the thing is demos should be
> able to have an independent release schedule,
> 
> its not like we are adding a huge number of demos that mean it needs a
> major release when mesa gets one and a minor release when mesa gets
> one.

But when we are adding them it's while implementing/fixing something in Mesa3D 
so obviously having the major numbers match would be beneficial. The releases 
don't have to match, major numbering certainly could. Actually I don't really 
care since all devs will use git anyway.

z