[Grok-dev] Re: Release naming convention revisited...

[Tres Seaver]

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Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Sebastian Ware wrote:
>> But it is still confusing with regards to the maturity of the code. 
>> Haven't we overintellectualised this, rather than kept it simple and 
>> intuitive for the casual observer?
> 
> No, I think we're doing it the right way. major.minor.bugfix is a very 
> common pattern in the software release world and I see no reason to 
> deviate from this.
> 
> I agree though that things like 0.10 are ugly. We'll get to 1.0 soon 
> enough though, so we can dump that ugliness.

I think any ugliness comes only from expectations expect 'decimal'-like
semantics, which we obviously don't have anyway (who ever heard of a
decimal number with *two* decimal points?  or which have arbitrary alpha
suffixes tacked on?).  Version identifiers are tuple-like, period;
confusing them with arithmetic quatntities is a correctible error, which
shouldn't be coddled.


Tres.
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