I can see why you would want this to be 3.0. It seems to be a significant enough change to warrant it. None of my users ever would have noticed an upgrade before, and they sure will now for example.
Perhaps the farcry version that requires CF7 can just be called FC 4.0? My 2c Gav On 23/08/05, Geoff Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > We're having a bit of internal debate of the next official milestone > number or version if you like for FarCry CMS. > > Should Glamour be 2.4 or 3.0?? > > Our current philosophy really works on the basis of no primary version > number change if there is no technical backward compatability issues. > For example we moved from 1 to 2 with the release of 6.1 and the > implementation of component features only availble in 6.1. We moved > from 2.2 to 2.3 when there was a complete i18n of the admin interface > (ie. major feature change). We moved from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 when we > released a collection of significant bug fixes and minor enhancements. > > For more gumph on this philosophy try: > The science of version numbering > http://blog.daemon.com.au/archives/000276.html > > We were not expecting a move to 3.0 until we relied on CF7 specific > functionality in the core library. > > The problem is really that although the Glamour updater should > seamlessly upgrade your current FarCry version for any CF server 6.1+, > the UI overhaul is perhaps the most dramatic change that any *user* ie > contributor of content, will have seen in the history of the product. > We will have to rewrite all user documentation and training materials to > accommodate the change. And I'm thinking that some of our major > customers (yourselves included) are going to see this as a "user > backward compatability issue". > > Don't get me wrong, the UI changes are all improvements -- really > *significant* improvements (by comparison 2.3 tortures me!). There are > little if any technical challenges anticipated in upgrading. But > perhaps we should be flagging to the community at large that this will > not be the normal, subtle, behind the scenes update you are use to with > typical FarCry upgrades. > > What do people think? > > -- geoff > http://www.daemon.com.au/ > > -- > Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content > filtering. > http://www.mailguard.com.au > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
