On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:08, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On 3 Nov 2002, Joe Klemmer wrote: > > This is one of the real difficulties on the Software Libre world. > >Developers (individual and in groups) have confused the whole 'alpha', > >'beta', 'gama' thing and have completely made useless version > >numbering. Mike points to one of the issues. If a product is better > >and more stable than a previous version there's absolutely no reason it > >should not be a release version. Another example is gaim. It's on > >version 0.59.x yet it's likely the most usable and stable IM client > >out. Why it isn't version 1 is beyond me. Don't get me wrong, I happen > >to love gaim and think it is great. But why is it still 0.anything? > > I have a lot more I can say on this but I'm not feeling so well at the > >moment. Maybe I'll post a complete rant somewhere sometime... > I agree completely. So many software developers are completely > clueless when it comes to versioning. I agree completely, as well. There's way too many 1.0's and so called stable versions that aren't. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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