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And we all thought Microsoft couldn't count...

Doqtor KirbyDoqtor Kirby
edited July 2015 in Software
openSUSE development team released their first milestone for their Leap platform. It's version number is 42.1, which is a huge gap between the current stable 13.2 release.

https://news.opensuse.org/2015/07/24/op ... or-leap-2/

Comments

  • BODBOD
    I can't stand this stupid versioning that is being used nowadays. We're moving entire version points in some software with little or no changes being added.
  • BlueSunBlueSun
    I blame Google. Seems this trend started with Chrome, which is now up to version 44.
  • zebMcCorklezebMcCorkle
    BlueSun wrote:
    I blame Google. Seems this trend started with Chrome, which is now up to version 44.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I actually think Firefox did it before Chrome came out.
  • QjimboQjimbo
    CodingWithClass wrote:
    BlueSun wrote:
    I blame Google. Seems this trend started with Chrome, which is now up to version 44.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I actually think Firefox did it before Chrome came out.

    Chrome was definitely first, one of the many things FireFox copied from Chrome. I always liked FireFox's more traditional UI, now it's the exact same as Chrome and you have to install addons to get the original interface back.

    But yes, I hate that style of versioning. Once you get over a hundred it starts to sound really stupid out-loud.
  • SomeGuySomeGuy
    Another very serious problem with that kind of version numbering is that when you deal with so many different products, you might as well just replace these with random numbers.

    If you really need rapid release, then a date-based version number is the only thing that makes sense. Of course the marketing morons don't like that because they want their product to look like it is advancing faster than everyone else's.

    My advice to anyone with rapid release: get more fiber in your diet. :P
  • TCPMetaTCPMeta
    If I was still programing I would start using negatives on my version releases.

    Version -2.-0
  • os2fan2os2fan2
    Jumping versions can sometimes be a good thing, if the interface across platforms are kept in line with the version number.

    4os2 trails three version numbers behind 4dos, so features released in 4os2 2.5 are in 4dos 5.5, for example. JP Software released 4nt, whose versions matched 4os2, and take command, where the version number trails 4os2 by 1, so a package 4dos 6.0 + 4os2 3.0 + tcmd 2.0, all have the same language, improved from 4dos 5.5 / 4os2 2.5 tcmd 2.0. By vers 4dos 7.5, they brought tcmd and 4nt in line with each other, the final version being 4nt / tcmd 8.02,

    Here skipping version numbers would have been good, because you could query a language level %_4ver and got something that you know that anything that answers 5.5 is the same feature set.

    Microsoft Word for Windows jumped (unnecessarily) from 2 to 6, to align with the (illfated) word 6 product.
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