On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:01:15PM -0500, Steven Hazel wrote: > Michael Carmack <karmak at w3.org> writes: > > > Whereas a jump to 0.3.8.2 "feels" less significant than a jump to > > 0.3.9 and one could argue for choosing to version this way, I'm not > > sure it's really that useful developers or users. A more logical > > versioning scheme might use major/minor/subminor numbers, where the > > major number gets incremented when backwards compatibility is > > broken, the minor number gets incremented when new features are > > added (forward compatibility is broken), and the subminor number > > gets incremented when neither forwards nor backwards compatibility > > is broken (e.g. bugfixes, added documentation, etc). > > In fact, that is the scheme we're using. But everyone here is too > gutless to release a 1.0, so it's 0.major.minor.micro.
Hmm... would that make 0 a supermajor number? :) And if so, what is it's logical significance? m. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From devl-admin at freenetproject.org Sat Apr 7 16:33:57 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA06164 for <danello at danky.com>; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:33:55 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8505858044; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from tux.w3.org (tux.w3.org [18.29.0.27]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F9557D9C for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from karmak at localhost) by tux.w3.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA13645 for devl at freenetproject.org; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 16:09:14 -0400 From: Michael Carmack <[email protected]> To: devl at freenetproject.org Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] Re: Key indices / version number Message-ID: <20010407160914.D20409 at tux.w3.org> References: <20010407190101.E557F58062 at hawk.freenetproject.org> <20010407153305.B20409 at tux.w3.org> <87lmpceayc.fsf at azrael.dyn.cheapnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
