[Lazarus] Lazarus trunk version number

[Maxim Ganetsky]

30.06.2023 14:27, Martin Frb via lazarus пишет:
> On 30/06/2023 12:51, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote:
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>>> On Friday, June 30, 2023, John Landmesser via lazarus <
>>> lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> perhaps that should have become 3.00 ?
>>>>
>>>> Lazarus *3.99* (rev main_3_99-41-g3d8dd85474) FPC 3.2.2 
>>>> x86_64-linux-gtk2
>>>>
>>>> You are looking at trunk, the development version. See :
>>> https://wiki.freepascal.org/Version_Numbering#Lazarus_3.0_and_newer
>>
>> You might want to add some explanation for this new versioning scheme 
>> to that page. 
>
> Added.

I made some improvements, hope it is even more clear now.

>> The graph does not help.
>>
>> From what is currently there, I don't understand neither the logic 
>> nor the need of this change.
> "Need"... Well, in terms of "because it solved the issue xyz" => then 
> there is no need.

Basically, version numbering is all about "marketing". By always 
increasing major version we tell to the general audience that major 
release indeed contains major changes (which is always the case).

So we solve/improve "marketing" issues.

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