On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 04:09:14PM -0400, Michael Carmack wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 03:01:15PM -0500, Steven Hazel wrote: > > Michael Carmack <karmak at w3.org> writes: > > Actually, the reason I emailed this to the list was because > I thought I saw some debate over whether the next release > should be called 0.3.8.2 or 0.3.9. Using a major.minor.subminor > versioning scheme I wouldn't expect there to be any room for > such debates. > > I tend to skim some of my emails though, so perhaps I > misunderstood what was being discussed.
Never mind this. I switched from digest to regular mail today and now I've seen the rest of the discussion. Kind of a shame that the version number gets that extra zero prepended to it for psychological impact (if that is indeed the only reason). One would hope an open-source project would be above catering to the public perceptions that
