Re: Is there going to be a release soon?

2008-11-21 Thread Adam Fedor
On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:15 PM, David Chisnall wrote: P.S. The stable/unstable version numbering system really confuses a lot of people. Everyone expects 0.14 to come after 0.13, not before. The odd-unstable/even-unstable system is used by a load of projects (including the Linux kernel)

Re: Is there going to be a release soon?

2008-11-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 21 Nov., 16:24, Adam Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 20, 2008, at 3:15 PM, David Chisnall wrote: P.S.  The stable/unstable version numbering system really confuses a   lot of people.  Everyone expects 0.14 to come after 0.13, not   before.  The odd-unstable/even-unstable system

Re: Is there going to be a release soon?

2008-11-21 Thread Adam Fedor
On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There, the (most) stable releases are always of the form X.X.maximum i.e. if you go to gcc 3.4 you will find gcc 3.4.6 (i.e. has bugs fixed) And the instable one is the one with the highest available numbers. gcc is probably not a good

Re: Is there going to be a release soon?

2008-11-21 Thread Fred Kiefer
Adam Fedor wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And one thing makes me wonder a little: why is it still a 0.15 release? After so many years of work. From a marketing view this looks like an instable experiment and not as something that can be

Re: Is there going to be a release soon?

2008-11-21 Thread David Chisnall
On 21 Nov 2008, at 23:01, Fred Kiefer wrote: Adam Fedor wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And one thing makes me wonder a little: why is it still a 0.15 release? After so many years of work. From a marketing view this looks like an