Re: version numbers

  • From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 08:14:21 -0700

Version numbers usually mean this but can mean anything.  At my work for example
my boss has a habbit of calling the first release of anything .1 instead of .0
to make people think their not installing beta. Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel Blanch" <j.blanch@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 5:21 PM
Subject: version numbers


> On another list, I have just been reading a message in which the questioner
> was asking what the version number meant.  It was explained that the first
> number refers to the program, the second to any minor updates that have been
> made, and the third to bug fixes.
> I take it, therefore, that JFW5.0.884 must have beena very sick little
> cookie when it was first liberated!
>
>              Jewel
>
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