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Although that's not very interesting either. Linus: "What's new?" Linus: "Nothing."

by armored 15y ago

thaumaturgy 15y ago
Yeah, nice. "Major version? Minor version? Revision? What're those? I like round numbers." Why not just go to a basic increment (Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, ...), or a date-based (Linux 2011! Now with new ribbon interface!) numbering instead? ...eh. I dunno why this bothers me so much.
- Dylan16807 15y ago
  Isn't the point of this to start correctly using the minor version numbers again, to get back to a good versioning system? And since it's a different scheme it makes a lot of sense to increment the major version to separate it.
- j2d2j2d2 15y ago
  It shouldn't. Open source version numbers greater than 1.0 dont mean a whole lot. Chrome, the browser, around version 8 (give or take). How much sense does that make?
  - thaumaturgy 15y ago
    Yeah, I know. At one time though, version numbering was used as a signal to other developers that relied on your software. Changing the major version number indicated a large change -- either API, or architectural, or both -- that was expected to break software that relied on it. So then, as an end-user, it was easy to keep track of which pieces were likely to be compatible with which other pieces; if your add-on or what-have-you worked with version 2.1, then it would work with 2.1.1, and probably work with 2.2, but probably not work with 3.0. I guess people got bored with the sensibility of that, or something.
    - kronusaturn 15y ago
      Linux has kept its main public interfaces stable for all of its several hundred post-1.0 releases, so using that scheme would mean Linux would have to use rather odd-looking version numbers like 1.632.5
  - cookiecaper 15y ago
    Chrome is on version #11 in stable. #12 and #13 are in beta and dev respectively.
    - j2d2j2d2 15y ago
      thanks!
  - edu 15y ago
    8? I'm running Chrome 11!
    - j2d2j2d2 15y ago
      You are correct. I am on 11.0.696.71. I was wrong when I said 8.
- mikey_p 15y ago
  Because the number can still mean something. Does anyone have any major arguments against or issues with semantic versioning? http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/

Although that's not very interesting either. Linus: "What's new?" Linus: "Nothing."

by armored 15y ago

Although that's not very interesting either. Linus: "What's new?" Linus: "Nothing."

Yeah, nice. "Major version? Minor version? Revision? What're those? I like round numbers." Why not just go to a basic increment (Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, ...), or a date-based (Linux 2011! Now with new ribbon interface!) numbering instead? ...eh. I dunno why this bothers me so much.

Dylan16807 15y ago
Isn't the point of this to start correctly using the minor version numbers again, to get back to a good versioning system? And since it's a different scheme it makes a lot of sense to increment the major version to separate it.
j2d2j2d2 15y ago
It shouldn't. Open source version numbers greater than 1.0 dont mean a whole lot. Chrome, the browser, around version 8 (give or take). How much sense does that make?
- thaumaturgy 15y ago
  Yeah, I know. At one time though, version numbering was used as a signal to other developers that relied on your software. Changing the major version number indicated a large change -- either API, or architectural, or both -- that was expected to break software that relied on it. So then, as an end-user, it was easy to keep track of which pieces were likely to be compatible with which other pieces; if your add-on or what-have-you worked with version 2.1, then it would work with 2.1.1, and probably work with 2.2, but probably not work with 3.0. I guess people got bored with the sensibility of that, or something.
  - kronusaturn 15y ago
    Linux has kept its main public interfaces stable for all of its several hundred post-1.0 releases, so using that scheme would mean Linux would have to use rather odd-looking version numbers like 1.632.5
- cookiecaper 15y ago
  Chrome is on version #11 in stable. #12 and #13 are in beta and dev respectively.
  - j2d2j2d2 15y ago
    thanks!
- edu 15y ago
  8? I'm running Chrome 11!
  - j2d2j2d2 15y ago
    You are correct. I am on 11.0.696.71. I was wrong when I said 8.
mikey_p 15y ago
Because the number can still mean something. Does anyone have any major arguments against or issues with semantic versioning? http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/