Re: [Help-gsl] Linear least squares, webpages and the next release

[Peter Johansson]

Hi,

On 10/23/2015 05:17 AM, Patrick Alken wrote:
> I've updated the GSL webpages on gnu.org to the latest in the git 
> repository, since many new features have been added since the last 
> 1.16 release. The main page also now recommends to install GSL from 
> the git, since 1.16 is quite outdated. This brings me again to the 
> discussion of the next release of GSL.
>
>   The last discussion of GSL v2.0 was in June 2014 (time goes too 
> quickly!). I would like to reopen this discussion. The main points 
> back then holding up v2.0 were:
Why is the next version called v2.0 rather than v1.17. Bumping the major 
number (1->2) is interpreted by many (including me) that things are 
gonna break in the interface, which I hope is not the case. Please don't 
bump major version number just to show how much development has happened 
between releases.

Just my two cents.

Thanks,
Peter