FOSS software has a lot of "version 0" software out there. Basically,
that's how they say "this is beta code!". They generally believe in release
early and often.


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:10 AM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Tom:
> >
> > How about MVS 2.0 ?
>
>
> I'm not Tom, but I'm quite sure that was Version 1 Release 2 Modification
> Level 0. As others have noted, "You can't have a Release 0".
>
> This is all muddied by inconsistency in including the Version number. VM,
> for instance, had VM/XA 1.0 and VM/ESA 1.0 (among others) because the
> "Version 1" was implicit (or not even thought of, perhaps).
>
> Product versioning is arcane and varies across vendors and even within
> vendors; some folks think 2.9.13b is somehow more useful/meaningful than
> just going to 2.9.14. I don't, but that's me.
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