Two hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Eli Barzilay wrote at 08/03/2011 10:45 PM: > > The best way to deal with these is to use a precise version number > > (even if it's an unreleased four-part version) with the result of > > `version->integer' from `version/utils'. > > I guess I don't mind sounding encylopedically nerdy when I later > tell someone, speaking from memory, "Ah yes, Places support was > added in *version five dot one dot two*," with a precision cadence > for each part of the version number. It beats having to say goofy > Ubuntuesque version names like "Rambunctious Rabbit": "Affirmative, > sir. Staging servers have been validated with Racket version Randy > Rottweiler, and are ready for production deployment."
[FWIW, I really dislike those "cute" codenames. They're semi-"fun" in some projects where they're not used for much more than the announcements, but Ubuntu not only uses them thoroughly, they came up with that two-word convention...] -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users