[swift-evolution] Swift 3.0 vs 3.x and Timing Clarification

[Robert Hedin]

I thought Chris was pretty clear as well; but what was said was:

"Over the next year, the core team expects to ship two major releases of
Swift: *Swift 3.x in Spring 2017* and *Swift 4 in Fall 2017*."

I'm know I'm being pedantic, but since 3.0 hasn't been released yet, it
sounds like it should be one of the "two major releases". While I'd love to
have Swift 3 for this year, I'm fine if it's slipping. Honestly, I'm not a
fan of tying what are huge language changes to an arbitrary annual ship
schedule anyway.

All that said, I'm just looking for clarity one way or the other so that I
can plan our app migration strategy over the near term.

rob.


On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Brandon Knope <bknope at me.com> wrote:

> There is no way Swift 3 doesn't ship with iOS 10 in September.
>
> I think he meant point releases after 3.0 (3.*) will be in 2017 (3 vs 3.*
> vs 4 was trying to convey this I believe).
>
> Swift 3 has to ship with iOS 10 because lots of us are building and
> updating to iOS 10 and using swift 3. Apple would have a lot of angry
> developers come iOS 10 if they couldn't submit their apps...
>
> But of course, Chris can clarify :)
>
> Brandon
>
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2016, at 9:38 PM, Robert Hedin via swift-evolution <
> swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
>
> My team has been closely following things here and has been looking
> forward with great anticipation to using Swift 3 in our production systems.
>
> To that end, I'd like to confirm (or not) that "Swift 3.0" is no longer
> expected to ship in "late 2016" as currently reflected on the Swift
> Evolution GitHub repo but will rather ship in "Spring 2017".
>
> Over the past 24 hours I've got different members of my team coming up
> with different reads of what, exactly, "3.x" means in context.
>
> Thanks!
>
> rob.
>
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