On 18 December 2015 at 12:43, Alexander Konovalov wrote: | 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?
Some of us have children. But we don't refer to all of our children by the same version^Hnumber^Hname. And to be able to diffferentiate your children in, say, school, the teacher also uses a common root, the family name. It's not that different with Emacs 24.5 or gcc 5.3.1 or R 3.2.3. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
