on 11/24/00 4:27 AM, Karl wrote: > As far as software in the old days went (I have no idea when the old > days were, exactly) , I remember a dot-something increment involved a > change in the file format of an application, while a full > number-upgrade involved some major underpinnings changes to a > program, whether it was the GUI or something else. > > I'm sure there are better, more in-depth explanations out there... > but unless the file format changed, we'll be in the 2.3.x days for > some time to come... and that's completely fine with me, as I'm sick > of whole version numbers coming out on pretty much a yearly schedule, > with very minimal changes. Of course, the general consumer wants big > number changes, as it seems so much bigger that way... and the > company can try to justify a big upgrade cost. > Personally, I like the subscription-based pricing that MetaCard > currently uses - mostly since the updates are so frequent and > important. Keep up the great work, MC Corp.! I always liked Knuth's TeX version numbering system; until frozen at version 3.14159, it increasingly converged on the decimal expansion of Pi... -- Tom Szasz once quipped [approximately]: When I talk to God, it's called prayer; but when God talks to me, it's called schizophrenia! John R. Vokey, Ph.D. Chair Department of Psychology and Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
