On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 12:30:33PM +0100, Vincent Snijders wrote: > >> Why? Can you supply examples where simple versioning doesn't work in > >> open source projects? > > > > The point is that the audience is different. > > What is the purpose of a creating a 1.0 release:
(or of versioning policy in general) > A. Marketing, getting more people of the threshold to use Lazarus > or > B. Forcing Lazarus developers to keep stable interfaces C. define ready as when developers would consider it ready, not as an marketing instrument. Nothing stops the proponents from starting a good campaign advertising Lazarus as fit for purpose, and that would have way more impact then this bickering over the version number. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus