From: Neil Stevens <neil@...>
Date: 2004-07-12T00:57:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Business application building with Ruby

Kirk Haines wrote:
> It could be version 9.3.7 or version 0.0.5, but if there isn't sufficient
> documentation for one to do due diligence research, the version number is
> not particularly important except as a counter.

Then how about using dates as versions?  Call the release made tomorrow 
20040712.

That won't drive off users who are going to make the reasonable assumption
that anything below 1.1 can't be trusted for real work, it'll let you
distinguish one release from another, and everyone wins.

-- 
Neil Stevens - neil @hakubi.us
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
                                                 -- Albert Einstein(?)