[Lazarus] Lazarus trunk version number

[Martin Frb]

On 30/06/2023 12:51, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote:
>
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> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote:
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>> On Friday, June 30, 2023, John Landmesser via lazarus <
>> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
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>>> perhaps that should have become 3.00 ?
>>>
>>> Lazarus *3.99* (rev main_3_99-41-g3d8dd85474) FPC 3.2.2 
>>> x86_64-linux-gtk2
>>>
>>> You are looking at trunk, the development version. See :
>> https://wiki.freepascal.org/Version_Numbering#Lazarus_3.0_and_newer
>
> You might want to add some explanation for this new versioning scheme 
> to that page. 

Added.

> The graph does not help.
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> From what is currently there, I don't understand neither the logic nor 
> the need of this change.
"Need"... Well, in terms of "because it solved the issue xyz" => then 
there is no need.

But, there was no need (anymore) to reserve 2 digits for major releases. 
When 1.0 was released there was no need for further major releases to be 
1.2 instead of 2.0.
So simple said a non-needed feature was abandoned, subjectively 
simplifying the process.


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> Also, how come trunk is 3.99 (indicating development for 4.0, if I 
> understand
> the page correctly) if 3.0 is not yet out ? Based on the graph, I 
> would think trunk should be at 2.99 now.

The fixes_3 branch does exist. So the features for 3.0 have been 
finalized. Trunk therefore from this point prepares for 4.0.