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The upside being that releasing a new version with a different version scheme isn't a time-sensitive task, the old version isn't going to stop working just beca
by Sean1708 7y ago
The upside being that releasing a new version with a different version scheme isn't a time-sensitive task, the old version isn't going to stop working just because the new version number wouldn't be valid.
- 0xffff2 7y agoChanging versioning schemes comes with its own set of problems. There is rather famously no "Windows 9" because enough people detected Windows 95/98 with the equivalent of a regex looking for "Windows 9*" that Microsoft thought it might be a problem.
- Sean1708 7y agoMy point isn't that it has no downsides, my point is that it would be a far less pressing issue than Y2K was.