Revising Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

[Gilles Moris]

On Wednesday 01 June 2011 12:00:51 am Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:45 +0200, Gilles Moris wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 May 2011 05:27:32 pm Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > Be sure to mention to them that 2.0 is due in November.
> >
> > Is this because this release will include substantial changes that the
> > first digit should chnaged, or you don't want a 1.10 ?
>
> The latter, of course.

OK, thanks.

>
> There will _never_ be a "break the world and alienate all the current
> users" release of Mercurial. This should go without saying. Anyone
> suggesting that going from 1.9 to 2.0 is an excuse to break something
> will be beaten with a very large cluestick.

Yes, I know.
This could also have been revolutionary new features that would change the 
user's experience.
Or rewrite in C# or Perl6 ;-)

Thanks.
Gilles.