Hi :) It's not us copying them. The "Service Pack" idea is just their name for something other people were already using.
Actually the Sp idea is a bit different from what happens with LO. With LO it's easy to download the whole upgrade so that for new installs you only have to install just the 1 thing. By contrast with the Sp idea you keep using the old installer, then apply updates and reboot, and maybe more updates and maybe more reboots and then apply the Service Pack and reboot and more updates and more reboots and then the next Service Pack and on and on. Eventually a new installer appears with the SPs bundled in but then the license key becomes a problem. I think that's one reason people who are new to OpenSource get a bit confused. They don't start with say, 4.1.0 and then apply tons of updates, patches and Service Packs to end up with the 4.1.6 So maybe it is difficult for them to understand the difference between a 4.1.6 and a 4.2.0. Plus the maths challenge that 4.2 > 4.1 so it's intuitive (but wrong) that 4.2.0 'must be' greater than 4.1.6. I don't think anyone has found a good way around that. People try using names such as "Precise Pangolin" but that gets even more confusing. Regards from Tom :) On 22 June 2014 20:27, Luuk <luu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22-6-2014 18:10, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> It's that 3rd digit that indicates stability. >> >> It's like the "Service Pack"s for MS programs. Many companies never >> consider installing any MS programs until at least Sp1 or Sp2. Similarly >> many of us keep "production machines" on earlier branches. I keep most of >> my colleagues on 3.5.7 - although i do keep meaning to upgrade them to a >> more recent x.x.6. >> >> > The LO-people should stop copying behaviour of MS. > > MS is no standard. > MS is not following standards. > MS is only copying standards, and adapting them to their own standards. > > MS is like: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZEJ4OJTgg8 > > ;-) > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
