On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Alexander Konovalov < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, > > After the recent success of the question on the metaphor for > loops, may I suggest another question: what is the metaphor > to explain that if the software is published, then the version > number is used, and there should be never ever a different > archive which would have the same version number? > > If I buy a copy of Mathematical Methods for Science Students which edition should I buy? What happens if an unscrupulous publisher reprints edition 1 and calls it edition 3? How does the publisher decide when to release a new edition? When the author has more text or when all the typos have gone, or some other time? Sarah -- Dr. Sarah Mount, Research Associate, King's College London: http://soft-dev.org/ Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute: http://software.ac.uk/ twitter: @snim2
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