AlainF wrote:
Seamonkey should use the same version number as the firefox version it's using. If it's base on Firefox 4 then Seamonkey 4.xx and now with Firefox 5 then Seamonkey 5.xx.
It's a common misconception that SeaMonkey is based on Firefox. It's based on the Mozilla platform, which includes Gecko (the rendering engine), which in turn appears in the User Agent string of all Mozilla products (among them Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey). Starting with Firefox 5, the version of Gecko will match that of Firefox, though.
Still, every group behind a product can decide on their own versioning theme. The Thunderbird developers chose to follow Firefox, making a jump from 3.1 to 5.0. The SeaMonkey developers however decided to continue with the established versioning theme while otherwise jumping on the rapid release train. That means that releases will be quicker, but the decision on what deserves a new major version will be independent from that.
Personally I think having half a dozen new major versions a year is totally stupid. In a few years, Firefox and Thunderbird will be in the 20-30 range if they continue this way, and I think that just looks ridiculous. I guess they will some day either revise their decision or adapt yet another versioning theme (of which there are plenty; personally I think only somehow including the release year is future-proof, think Ubuntu).
Greetings, Jens -- Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/> SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
