And now... Julia 0.6.2!

[ararslan]

@Tamas_Papp

I wonder if, in the future, we could get a root directory name in the tarball that reflects the version instead of the git hash

Indeed, that’s planned. I’d like to use the full VERSION rather than just the Git SHA for all downloads, so for example recent 0.7 would be julia-v0.7.0-DEV.3089, this would be julia-v0.6.2, etc.

[ararslan]

@ssfrr

I personally would be grateful for a reduction in redundancy.

Indeed, this is already posted in the announcements category, so further specifying it as an announcement is probably not necessary.

[juliohm]

I like the idea of removing it all together as well. The “Announcements” category should be enough.

[Liso]

@Elrod

But you would have a separate folder for v0.7, and thus you would probably have to reinstall packages when making that switch.

If 0.7 is intended to be just transition version to 1.0 could be possible to rename .julia/v0.7 to .julia/v1.0 ?

Or new Pkg will help to make transition smooth by some recipe for “exporting” “importing” installed packages?

What is future plan for transition from 1.0 to 1.1 ?