OpenEuphoria

Re: Next version number 3.2 or 4.0?

• Posted by yuku <yuku at ikitek.??m> Apr 22, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> As the standard library increases in size, testing and documentation, I wonder
> if the first release of Euphoria with the new library should be 4.0 instead
> of 3.2? It seems quite a change that would warrant a 4.0 release. It would
> also
> be a major change that if there are incompatibilities we could/should state
> that 4.0 has many new methods, of which could conflict with existing code.
> 
> Changes with in a major version should do their absolute best to not cause
> language
> incompatibilities, but with major releases such incompatibilities may be
> inevitable?
> 
> I know it seems not to long ago the 3.1 branch was just released but what do
> you think?

Regarding 3.2 or 4.0, i agree with 4.0. And also: DROP DOS support! (copy-pasted
from IRC)
It is troublesome to implement all 3 platforms for new coming functions
such as implementing unicode functions and file operations.