On May 4, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:44:52AM -0700, Carl Witty wrote:
Maybe we should just drop the "1." and call the next release 7.0. Makes for less typing. Someone remind me which software project did that...
GNU Emacs: went from version 1.1 to 1.12, then dropped the initial "1" and has continued from version 13 to version 21 (so far).
Less has never had "traditional" version numbers; it's up near version 247 or something.
Mac OS X? Other way around - went from system 7, 8, OS 9 - then 10.1 (10), 10.2 (11), 10.3 (12), 10.4 (13) and soon, 10.5 (14) - I tend to find that copying something apple did leads to success, ESPECIALLY when they changed something - usually, when they admit they made a mistake (very rare) and fix it in a given way (much less rare) then they usually fix it 100%, and put lots of thought into their decision. I see the fact that they ended up using a X.YY system means we should stick to the same, but maybe that's just me.