[Lazarus] Off topic. Version numbers

[Marco van de Voort]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 08:14:11PM +0200, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > has changed between releases. Lets just hope nobody else follows the Web
> > Browser versioning scheme.
> 
> Even it's only a tiny security bug fix you should use the new
> browser version. Users must not wait for big new browser features.

True, but that behaviour is independent from the version numbering scheme.

I agree a bit with Graeme. Such fast incrementing major versions convey
nearly no information anymore. 

Yes, old numbering schemes were only correct first magnitude, but at least
they conveyed the intent of developers and relations between releases.

Moreover, version numbering systems will only be first order for most
projects (except a few very big ones like *nix kernels), since a reality is
simply that testing doesn't uncover all bugs and incompatibilities.