[ewiki] Re: ordinary version numbers?

I don't think we should bother applying them retroactively, just advance
to version 3 and leave the old numbers as is, they'll still be
sequential and less then the current numbers and that's about all I
think will be important to users.

Andy 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ewiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:ewiki-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mario Salzer
> Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:51 AM
> To: ewiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ewiki] ordinary version numbers?
> 
> I really enjoy the release numbers that ewiki was packaged 
> with to date, but I've lately thought we should drop it in 
> favour of something more normal.
> 
> While things like "R1.02x" allow conservatively growing 
> version numbers and look less annoying at first, they are 
> hardly user- friendly (and that's one of the project goals). 
> So maybe it was better if from the next major release we use 
> "3.0.0" instead (= like EVERYONE ELSE does). We were probably 
> at version 2.2.x right now(?)
> 
> The MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH scheme allowed us to introduce stable 
> and unstable versions as well, and not only made the versions 
> better to distinguish from each other.
> The releases of the past would then be reenumerated for the 
> new scheme and carry both a release and a version number instead.
> 
> Is this a good idea or a non-issue to our users? Opinions please.
> 
> mario
> 
>

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