On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 21:53:51 -0400 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On Friday, July 08, 2011 05:06:21 pm a.l.e wrote: > > hi > > > > > > It would be nice if it were added automagically to > the > > > > Splash Screen :<). > > > > > > er > > > > > > > > > svn info | grep Revision > > > > you're not funny. > > > > http://imgbin.org/index.php?page=image&id=4416 > > > > I am not suggesting the code on the splash screen, I am of > course suggesting the information provided by the code. > There is a complicated string of letters that few of us can > understand, and there is a single number that says this > revision is newer than that earlier revision with a lower > number. > > For more than a year we have had development versions that > were in fact the de facto operational version for most of > us. The latest Scribus books refer to either 1.3.5 or > 1.3.9, allegedly development versions. Now we have 1.4.0 > RC5 which keeps getting refined but is again a de facto > production version. All I asked for was the number that > shows that progress is being made. Craig has provided an > easier path to that number. > > Getting to a new production version seems to be an > asymptotic function. I suggest we declare 1.4.0 RC5 > (current version thereof) to be 1.4.0, a production > version, tomorrow, and make 1.4.1 the target for any future > changes to that series of Scribus. Today 1.3.3.14 is still > the "official" production version and that becomes more > unrealistic every day. > > The perfect has become the enemy of the good. > Hi John, Maybe you shouldn't worry about Revision numbers etc. Carey bunks released "Grokking the GIMP" which was based on gimp-1.2, long before gimp-1.2 was released. Perhaps if you want to write a book, you can refer to Scribus-1.4. Don't worry about revision numbers or release candidates. They are transient. Like most books it will be out of date in very quick time. That's life. Owen
