[CP2K:8216] DATA_DIR (was: Release of CP2K version 4.1)

[Michael Banck]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 10:08:28AM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> Hi, Matthias.
> 
> On Thursday, 06 October 2016 at 08:21, Krack Matthias (PSI) wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:28:43AM -0700, Matthias Krack wrote:
> >> > we are pleased to announce the release of the CP2K version 4.1 
> >> > (October 5, 2016) <http://www.cp2k.org/news>.
> >> 
> >> Any reason it's 4.1 and not 4.0?
> > 
> > The developer team has agreed to change the numbering scheme slighlty
> > from now on. 4.0 has been the previous CP2K development version, 4.1
> > is the current CP2K release version, 5.0 is now the current development
> > (trunk) version, and the next release version will be 5.1 most likely.
> > That is to prevent any confusion concerning development and release
> > versions in the future.
> 
> That's actually more confusing. The usual practice is to use odd
> numbers for development versions and even for stable/release versions.
 
It also makes it look a bit like 4.1 is a brown-paper-bag release, i.e.
you tagged 4.0 but immediately found a bug so had to release 4.1.  At
least for the people not following closely.

That said, users will just get used to it.


Michael