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Rapid releases != rapid major version number increments. If you update the major version number too often it becomes meaningless. The Linux kernel is on versio
by TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
Rapid releases != rapid major version number increments. If you update the major version number too often it becomes meaningless.
The Linux kernel is on version 3.15, for example.
- sp332 12y agoYes, it is meaningless, and they intentionally hide the version number now - the download page doesn't even show it. But what could a major version number mean? GNU Emacs was on version 1.x for so long they dropped the leading "1." and promoted the minor version number to the major version. Ubuntu just numbers their releases after the date, e.g. 12.04 came out in April 2012.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y agoQuote from Wikipedia that expresses my viewpoint on the subject: > In principle [...] the major number is increased when there are significant jumps in functionality such as changing the framework which could cause incompatibility with interfacing systems, the minor number is incremented when only minor features or significant fixes have been added, and the revision number is incremented when minor bugs are fixed.
- chimeracoder 12y ago> GNU Emacs was on version 1.x for so long they dropped the leading "1." and promoted the minor version number to the major version. As did Java. Java 1.4 was released in 2002, and the next version was Java 5 in 2006.
- rogerdpack 12y agoagree, these should be point releases I'd wager. However, they have to "keep up with the Joneses" (chrome, in this case) which has high numbered versions, I'm guessing...
- sp332 12y agoThe fact that you don't know what version you're on is intentional on both sides. Both Google and Mozilla realized that the version is meaningless and hid it.