On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > Use 3.1 and developers in the know will understand that i's because we're > using LuceneJava 3.1; but uninformed users *might* be confused as to why > it jumped to a (seemingly) arbitrary number.
I also like to look at the downside of the specific user confusion. Their first reaction could be "3.1, what the heck is that about"! Of course, looking at the README or CHANGES or the release announcement, or at pretty much anything would immediately give them the answer. Look at what happens when other software packages do a big jump in their versioning... the reaction is sometimes "that's silly" or "ah, the marketing department", because there's no apparent reason for it. At least here there is a reason. -Yonik
