[squeak-dev] Re: 1.0 not a valid VersionNumber?

Stephen Pair stephen at pairhome.net
Wed Apr 9 17:41:29 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Brett Kosinski <fancypantalons at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > That's just a design decision I made.  I felt was would be confusing to
> have
> > version numbers "1" and "1.0" in the same lineage.  When you create a
> > branch, you would make "1.1" based on "1".
>
> Fundamentally, what this illustrates is that these version numbers are
> imminently suitable for internal versioning of a product during
> development, and are more or less akin to, say, SVN revision numbers
> or the like (obviously with more semantics built in), but are wholly
> unsuitable (and were probably never meant to be used) for
> customer-facing version numbers that would be used for marking public
> releases.
>
> Brett.


Correct.
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