On 25 April 2017 at 07:26, Michal Kubecek
On Tuesday, 25 April 2017 0:47 Richard Brown wrote:
I remember people saying the same when we jumped to 42.x just over two years ago.
In many ways, they were wrong - I didn't spend as much time as I expected repeating that message. It's been over a year since I had to deal with a question on the topic. One year of having to answer questions about why 15? Sure, I can live with that.
You still do not understand the fundamental difference between skipping from 13 to 42 and skipping from 42 to 15, do you? Skipping _forward_ is just common crazy, people will just roll their eyes and call you names for some time and life will go on; Skipping _back_ is utterly wrong in principle, it beats the one basic property of version numbers that everyone (OK, almost everyone, apparently) expects from them. And it's going to break things.
Michal Kubeček
Moving from suse_version 1315 to suse_version 1500 is going to break things less than when we went from suse_version 1320 in 13.2 to 1315 in Leap 42.1 Sure there are version comparisons elsewhere, especially configuration management like saltstack, puppet, etc. There will be some cost of the decision to go from Leap 42.1 and Leap 15 there. But in all cases with people I've spoken with so far, this has been defined as a onetime cost, not critical, and mostly involves removing or simplifying the nasty hacks they had to out in place for 42.1 in the first place, so it's not terrible. And given Leap 15 is like a year away, unlike when we decided Leap 42.1's version number barely weeks before the release, this time people have plenty of warning to prepare. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org