On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:45:29PM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > 2009/11/29 Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>: > > > > The problem is that while this works for commercial projects (young/idiotic > > users pay too), it doesn't work for open source projects. > > Why? Can you supply examples where simple versioning doesn't work in > open source projects?
The point is that the audience is different. Simplifying version nummbers is great for marketing to a dumb user crowd. But open source project are primarily the property aiming at the more able, not the lowest grade of users (except maybe high profile stuff like linux distributions). That's why a lot commercial software aimed at bulk user have yearnumber versioning, and open source projects not. Even the major distributions (only Mandrake and SUSE, that rely on selling versions have) IOW If you change to it, you make it easy to understand for a group that is not the target audience, which makes no sense. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
