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In what way is 5.8.0 "ossified"? I swear you're just making up terms now :P ... verb past tense: ossified; past participle: ossified 1. turn into bone or bony
by tenken 8y ago
In what way is 5.8.0 "ossified"? I swear you're just making up terms now :P ...
verb
past tense: ossified; past participle: ossified
1.
turn into bone or bony tissue.
"these tracheal cartilages may ossify"
synonyms: turn into bone, become bony, calcify, harden, solidify, rigidify, petrify
"the cartilage may ossify"
2.
cease developing; be stagnant or rigid.
"ossified political institutions"
synonyms: become inflexible, become rigid, fossilize, calcify, rigidify, stagnate
"the old political institutions have ossified"
... it would seem to me by whatever logic is employed, the same thing will occur at 10.0 because the version format may "appear" to change (with 2 leading digits now).
Ohh ... maybe you're saying the 5 hasnt changed in ages, well now was a silly time to change it still because they were .2 releases until it did change, which was mentioned by the other poster that mysql has already used versions 6 and 7 prior ....
I still don't agree that ossified is a valid usage in this case (it was still .2 releases from changing) -- when the original x.y.z versioning scheme was defined it was understood that there could be 0-N minor "y" updates before X is incremented; that's by definition not ossification, simply the versioning scheme at work.
geez. what a mess versioning is ... :P
- bytematic 8y ago'become inflexible, become rigid, fossilize, calcify, rigidify, stagnate "the old political institutions have ossified"' this part
- shawabawa3 8y agoAnother definition of ossified: cease developing; stagnate. In other words, the major version became meaningless as the "minor" version changes when the major should
- da_chicken 8y agoThe same thing happened with Java. After Java 1.4 they just dropped the 1 and released Java 5.
- alexanderchr 8y agoReact too - 0.14.9 -> 15.0.0
- weavie 8y agoThis confused me for ages. Only after reading your comment do I finally understand what happened here!
- rsynnott 8y agoIt was a bit weirder with Java, because Java 1.2 was widely marketed as Java 2. They then gave up on it a bit with 1.3 and 1.4, and then adopted it officially with 5.
- Nullabillity 8y agoEven weirder, 1.2 through 5 were all marketed specifically as Java 2, not just their second digit. So today you could be running Java 2 SE 5 Update 85.
- gtirloni 8y ago> maybe you're saying the 5 hasnt changed in ages Well, how could it be anything else? You have a major version that has been maintained since 2005 [0] 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#Release_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL#Release_history