On 18 Jan 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Why do you think that the change from 1.1.5 to 1.1.6 was a change in
> minor versions?
>
> It certanly is not.
Ok, I'm now better informed. But I do think that the LyX version numbers
are confusing. My suggestions:
- drop those a.b.cfixd versions. Since (as you said) those are
minor version changes, then change the minor version number!
Ie, use LyX 1.1.6 instead of 1.1.5fix1, 1.1.7 instead of 1.1.5fix2
etc.
- For major new versions, change the major version numbers, ie.
use LyX 1.2.0 instead of LyX 1.1.6.
Compare the version numbering scheme of most other Linux programs, eg.
the kernel (2.4.0 was a major, 2.2.x were only small bugfix versions with
little new features) or XFree86 (3.3.2 ... 3.3.6 were minor upgrades,
4.0.0 was a major, and then again 4.0.1, 4.0.2 were minor new versions).
M$ started using big version numbers for "minor" upgrades (jump from Word
2.0 to 6.0, though the versions between did actually exist for MS-DOS),
and the LyX team seems to go to the opposite direction--not good either.
