[Gridflow-dev] next version number ?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010, Patrick Boivin wrote:
>> 0.9.8 seems good...
> My students were talking about the benefits of installing 9.7 instead of 
> 9.6...

... and it especially looks like we are never going to get to something we 
will want to call « 1.0 ». On one hand you have people who expect version 
numbers to start at 1.0 for a first release and increase from there. On 
the other hand you have people who expect 1.0 to be the version number 
corresponding to the horizon. We walk and walk but the horizon is still 
over there. If we were planning 1.0 goals as non-moving targets and 
achieved them in priority of everything else, then 1.0 would be happening 
quick, but it would still be called just 1.0, so it would look like a new 
piece of software, instead of... a software that has accumulated some 
experience and aged for the better.

therefore I think it fully makes sense to pull a Solaris trick, which is 
to just chop off the leading component of the version number. This is 
similar to the Emacs trick, where they multiplied the (fractionary) 
version number by 10. It's not like the Slackware version jump or DOS 
version jump, because it's not there to make a link with the versioning of 
any competing software. I just want to make our old numbering irrelevant, 
yet without considering anyone else's version numbering as relevant 
either.

For now, all [doc_h] (and now [doc_demo]) say GridFlow « 1.0 », suggesting 
some kind of goal we're about to reach... and I'm wondering what I could 
be writing instead of « 1.0 ».

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