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At 10.32 +0000 2000.04.01, Simon Cozens wrote: >What improvements can we tell the user community about? To justify a >move off the 5.5 track, it's got to be something big. You actually think version number schemes mean something? If so, then how about this? "Because such a move should have been done before, and people who illogically think version number schemes mean a whole lot never upgraded before because they though the difference between seemingly minor versions was, well, minor, when they really weren't." Version number schemes for software, hardware, cars, cornbread recipes -- in every case -- are mere marketing. So why make a big deal out of it? Move on. >Yeah, a bunch of bugs have been fixed. So, what, I'm reduced to calling >it a bugfix release? But that would have been 5.005_04. No, because there were so many fundamental core changes that a maintenance version number change is entirely inappropriate. "We changed the core a lot, so we broke binary compatability, but this is just a maintenance release." Heh. -- Chris Nandor | pudge@pobox.com | http://pudge.net/ Andover.Net | chris.nandor@andover.net | http://slashcode.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next