[Lazarus] Lazarus trunk version number

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2023, Maxim Ganetsky via lazarus wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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.

Thanks to all for the explanations, all is clear now !

Michael.