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Will people understand that incrementing first number in version a couple times a year is bad before Chrome hits three digit version?
by EvgeniyZh 9y ago
Will people understand that incrementing first number in version a couple times a year is bad before Chrome hits three digit version?
- captainmuon 9y agoAdd a "1." before the version number in your head. It is all a matter of rescaling. Of course, the real reason for the crazy version numbers back then was to 1. get people to update, 2. to look more recent than Firefox (which has since followed suit), and 3. to stop people from programming websites towards certain version numbers (because nobody has a clue anymore what version they are running). I don't like it, but I can follow their reasoning.
- EvgeniyZh 9y ago> Add a "1." before the version number in your head. It is all a matter of rescaling. That still won't turn it into semver ( http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/ ), and 1.127 is not much better than 127. Versioning can be not just random number to differentiate between two versions, but actually give useful information about changes to users and devs.