[Gllug] MS grumbles

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On 9 Nov 2009, Peter Childs said:
> Are there any plans for 2.8 or 3 or is it going to be 2.6.somthing for
> ever, no matter what changes...

Adrian Bunk said, last year,

> Or like with X11R6, that became X11R7 after 11 years, there might be in 
> a few years some big change that will warrant a 2.8 or 3.0 (the rewrite 
> of the kernel in Visual Basic .NET ;-) ).

I really really hope that *that*, at least, never happens ;) but, no,
I know of no Word of God that says anything one way or the other. Right
now lots of incremental changes seem to be working, and as long as they
do, why not keep incrementing the version number?
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