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Well to me, to repeat my earlier thoughts, that is completely backward, as things stabilize, minor releases are appropriate. A 5.0 release as a user says "unstable, major changes".
The other reason for increasing a version number is for dynamic shared library numbering. If a new ABI is majorly incompatible with the old one, then old libraries will be incompatible, so it may be less confusing to bump major version numbers. It's a major change, but hopefully will be more-or-less stable. If you prefer 5.0 could be "a stable ABI has been specified and implemented" - it's *intended* to be stable, but there may be minor bugs. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
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