[Ffmpeg-devel] Release version numbering

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:08:53PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> 
> Benjamin Larsson said:
> > Hi, how should we number the upcoming release ? Should we just take the
> > numbers we have in each 3 libs or should we sync them all to the same
> > number. Currently it looks like this:
> >
> >   libavutil version: 49.0.0
> >   libavcodec version: 51.7.0
> >   libavformat version: 50.3.0
> >
> > I would prefer to just bump all to 52.0.0 for clairity. Any opinions ?
> 
> The library version numbers indicate API/ABI compatibility and should not
> be bumped for cosmetic reasons.  Releases should be numbered consecutively,
> so the next release will be 0.4.9 or possibly 0.5.0 (I don't think it's time
> for 1.0.0 quite yet).

Consecutive names are helpful, nevertheless it's not a law set in stone.

Given that so much time has passed and so many improvements were made
since the last release I would vote for 0.5.0.

Diego