On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 06:26:56AM -0400, Numien wrote: > On 04/05/12 03:35 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: > >With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version > >came out? > > Which is a hate in itself. > > My e-mail server (Kerio Mailserver) was written with the assumption > that, since Firefox 3 was the latest for years, it would never have > to handle a 2-digit version code. > > So when Firefox 10 came out, it assumed I was using Firefox 1, and > changed its webmail page appropriately.
Version-number hyperinflation seems to have been something which started with Google Chrome (which is at version 18.somthing at the moment, and that's only the last time I bothered checking) and seems to have been gleefully accepted as an Excellent Idea by all of Chrome's competitors. Remember when emacs was at version 1.18? Then they decided to drop the "1" and go the version-hyperinflation route. It's not really a new thing, it's just that the acceptance of version-hyperinflation has hit a meta-hyperinflation cycle. I fully expect version numbers to explode messily in a couple of years, and emacs, whatever Mozilla's browser is called, and whatever Google's browser is called, will suddenly come out as just being "Emacs", "Mozilla" and "Google Browser" respectively. Kind of like how Apple short-circuited the iPad version number inflation before it even hit "3" by declaring that henceforth, the current iPad, no matter what its specs, will be simply referred to as the "iPad". --Dave
