From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-05-23T12:37:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [SemiOT] Concerning version numbers...

Nicholas Van Weerdenburg wrote:
> Trailing decimal places would serve the same purpose.
> 
> e.g. 0.5.1.01
> 
> This is really no different then commercial software development with 
> build numbers and regular internal test builds.
> 
> I'm not sure about the second point- I'm more inclined to contribute to 
> something I'm using, whether it's 0.5 or 3.1. Do Perl or Python history 
> offer some insight into this?

That wasn't the point I was trying to make. The point was that by making
the development public, by taking a "release often" approach, we have
very frequent releases and use up a lot of numbers.

I guess I was just making a counter-argument to those who say there
should only be two or three releases, and nothing before 0.9 should
see the light of day.



Hal