chromatic wrote:
On Friday 20 February 2009 09:55:28 Allison Randal wrote:
Is there any more obvious way than 1.5 to say "This is the public
release half-way between 1.0 and 2.0"?
What does "half-way" mean? What does "2.0" mean?
(Any answer to the first question other than "It's been six months" seems at
odds with how we actually schedule things. Likewise "It's been a year" for
the second.)
Be careful of reading too much meaning into version numbers. On the
whole, the X.0 and X.5 are signals to outside packagers "we're ready for
you to package a new version" and to users not tracking monthly core
development "this would be a good point to upgrade".
It's 4 months for 1.5, and 6 months through 3.5. At that point we might
decide to increment the major version less frequently, to reflect the
pace of core development (I expect more activity in language development
than core development at that point). But, that's a decision to be made
at the Parrot developer summit in the spring of 2011.
Allison
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