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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 tha
by 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 agoYeah, 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 agoLinux 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 agoChrome is on version #11 in stable. #12 and #13 are in beta and dev respectively.
- j2d2j2d2 15y agothanks!
- edu 15y ago8? I'm running Chrome 11!
- j2d2j2d2 15y agoYou are correct. I am on 11.0.696.71. I was wrong when I said 8.