[cairo] Cairo release schedule and strategy

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:26:14PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I am trying to determine the stable release strategy for cairo and cairomm.
> 
> From the web site, current versions are cairo 1.14.12 and (apparently)
> cairomm-1.15.5.
> 
> However there also seems to be a cairo-1.15.12.
> 
> It appears that the strategy is for development versions to use odd minor
> versions and stable versions to use even minor versions.  Is this correct?
> If so there seems to be a contradiction between cairo and cairomm.

Hi Bruce,

Yes, that's correct.  The scheme Cairo has used is documented here:

  https://www.cairographics.org/manual/cairo-Version-Information.html

There's also some procedural docs on how releases are done in the
RELEASING file.

I haven't been involved in cairomm releases; they may well be using a
different release versioning strategy.

> It would also be useful to know if there is a schedule for stable releases.
> If so, can you share it on the web site (or point me to where it is)?

There is no formally published schedule.

Bryce