[Ffmpeg-devel] Release version numbering

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> > I would prefer to just bump all to 52.0.0 for clairity. Any opinions ?
> 
> The library version numbers indicate API/ABI compatibility and should not
> be bumped for cosmetic reasons.  Releases should be numbered consecutively,
> so the next release will be 0.4.9 or possibly 0.5.0 (I don't think it's time
> for 1.0.0 quite yet).

We have discussed this several times on mplayer lists, theoretically no
software reaches a 1.0 point. You can say that this is a valuable state,
release it as 1.0 and let work on further versions as 1.{1,2,3,4}, 2.0,
...

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