Hi there,
Whoever decided that software versioning should follow such a numbering
convention is a goozer, and you can quote me on that! :-)
There could have been any number of better ways to express the version number,
but they chose to use one that can combine more than one decimal place into
what looks to a lay person like a mistyped number... not clever.
Maybe something like 'Flightgear 2 Beta 1', or "Flightgear 2 Beta 2009-12-14",
or even something not using the decimal point as a separator like 1:10:0 would
be an improvement? It has always been something about many softwares that I've
disliked, is that they use the x.y.z numbering scheme.
Regards,
Chris Wilkinson, YBBN/BNE.
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From: S Andreason <sandrea...@gmail.com>
To: FlightGear developers discussions <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Mon, 14 December, 2009 1:07:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] Version number for the upcoming release
Jacob Burbach wrote:
> Traditionally it is MAJOR.MINOR.PATCHLEVEL, definately more than a
> patchlevel thing, and way more than minor, so either 1.10.x or 2.x.x
> if your following that standard. 1.10 feels weird,
Maybe it is wierd.
1.9 is mathematically the same as 1.90
1.10 is less than 1.90 by any normal math or sorting formula.
Just my 2 cents.
Stewart
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