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John J Barton  
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 More options Mar 6 2009, 2:29 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: John J Barton <johnjbar...@johnjbarton.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:29:08 -0800
Local: Fri, Mar 6 2009 2:29 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1 becoming Firefox 3.5
Dave Townsend wrote:

...

> It isn't suddenly gone, it will just be called something different. It
> doesn't affect the timing of the release at all, so if you were relying
> on 3.1 you are now relying on 3.5. I'm not sure why you would need to
> renumber your extension based on this, unless you mean the maxVersion
> and that is a fairly simple change to the update manifest (or in the
> developer panel in AMO once they enable support for the new versions).

I suppose this all seems trivial from the inside. It's not the version
checking that is any issue, it's the toll in human communications. Bug
reports, email, news postings all refer to 3.1. These all refer to
something that is now gone. Yes another version will come out called
3.5, but '3.1' does not go away.

Not changing the Gecko numbers compounds the problem by the way, since
.1 will not map to 3.1 means we have to keep track of the mapping rather
than just drop numbers.

It's all annoyingly pointless.  So as I said airing this and listening
to the rants ahead of time would make it easier to take.

jjb


 
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