Hi, hmm, what's so bad about a simple date for a version number? Ubuntu does it, (Open)Solaris does it, and I started doing it, too, because I found it less confusing than having version numbers such as e.g. 0.96.5.
Martin 2009/10/29, Ryan Abel <[email protected]>: > One thing I think it might be worth working on is the user- > friendliness of the version strings of packages in Extras. We want the > Application manager to be as friendly and approachable for the average > user as possible and long incomprehensible lines of alphanumerics are > a surefire way to scare people off. ;) > > So, this is just my humble request that people be considerate of users > when crafting their version strings and try to it reasonable. Avoiding > date/svn-based versions would probably be a good idea. > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
