From: mathew <meta@...>
Date: 2011-01-19T18:55:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34595] Re: [Ruby 1.8-Feature#4239] Let's begin a talk for "1.8.8" -- How's needed for surviving 1.8?

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:26, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:19 PM, NARUSE, Yui <naruse@airemix.jp> wrote:
>> FYI, our semantic versioning spec for Ruby 1.x is for example Ruby
>> 1.9.2-p136,
>> Major = 1.9
>> Minor = 2
>> Patch = 136
>
> Which really is at odds with the way most packagers and users of
> packages think of things. �I can't think of any other use of a 2 level
> �major version 'number'.

Mac OS X.
X Window system.
GNU Emacs.
Java.
Microsoft Windows. (*)

Will that do?


mathew
[ (*) http://www.nirmaltv.com/2009/08/17/windows-os-version-numbers/ ]
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