Interviewed by CNN on 4/4/2010 14:41, Phillip Jones told the world: > Ant wrote: >> On 4/4/2010 5:30 AM PT, Jens Hatlak typed: >> >>> Never. 2.1 will use Gecko 1.9.3. We're skipping Gecko 1.9.2. >> >> Ah thanks! Any ETA on its public stable release? > > We are just now at 2.0.4 and 2.0 came out in OCT. so four versions in 6 > months means one about every 6 weeks. If that continues That will mean > another 36 weeks (6 times 6) or about 9 months. Just an educated guess > based on how its been tracking so far. >
That's a faulty assumption. It implicitly assumes that there is necessarily going to be a continuous sequence, including 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.1.0. That's not how version numbers work at all. In fact, it breaks down in the following way: x.y.z, where x: Major version. Expect big changes when this number changes. Example: Seamonkey changed from XPFE to the Firefox toolkit when going from 1.x to 2.x. Don't be surprised if some of those changes will break compatibility in a big way with existing add-ons. y: Minor version. Some change in functionality, but usually not as visible. Compatibility breaks tend to be less common and more easily fixed. Sometimes, more significant revisions that don't quite rate a major version change will be represented by a large jump here -- like the jump from Firefox 3.0 to 3.5. z: Maintenance release. Bugfixs, mostly. No expected change in functionality or compatibility. (Some projects use four levels of version numbers) Note that this is NOT a strictly decimal system -- that is, any of those numbers can exceed one digit. Seamonkey 1.x, in fact, had as 1.1.19 as its last version -- under your logic, you would expect 1.1.10 to be called "1.2". Also, there's no reason why the maintenance would have to reach the "9" value before the minor version could be incremented. It might be that Seamonkey goes from 2.0.7 to 2.1.0, for instance. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #196: Me no internet, only janitor, me just wax floors. *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.4 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
