[Lazarus] Off topic. Version numbers

[Alexsander Rosa]

Here we moved to year.month (like Ubuntu).



2014-05-16 14:58 GMT-03:00 Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com>:

> On 16.05.2014 19:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>
>> On 2014-05-16 08:40, Andreas Schneider wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> <offtopic>
>>> Well, in the browser business they seem to follow that idea to the other
>>> extent, where it currently looks more like "hey we changed some lines of
>>> code, let's release a new major version".
>>> </offtopic>
>>>
>>
>> And yes, I find that SO annoying!  End-users now have no idea how much
>> has changed between releases. Lets just hope nobody else follows the Web
>> Browser versioning scheme.
>>
>
> At my company we've recently switched to such a version scheme as well,
> because with the old version scheme (a typical x.y.z scheme) customers
> always wondered why they should update when only the last digit changed...
> (Note: we are still using the x.y.z scheme internally to mark fix releases
> etc., but to the user we only promote the major number)
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
>
>
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Atenciosamente,
Alexsander da Rosa
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