2009/7/27 John Yeung gallium.arsenide@gmail.com:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Thomas Martitzthomas.martitz@student.htw-berlin.de wrote:
Nick Treleaven schrieb:
Well, a 1.0 release usually indicates better stability than an 0.x release.
Regards, Nick
That's bullshit, to be honest.
Well, going back to the marketing angle, I would say that there are still a lot of people who *perceive* a 1.0 release to have better stability (more suitable for production deployment, etc.) than 0.x. So I'm with Nick if I'm allowed to read "indicates" as "gives the external appearance of".
Also, while I agree with some of the other comments that programmers are less likely to care whether a version number is below 1, I would guess that there are still a significant number of programmers who do. I'm not saying that Geany should jump to version 1.0 to try to capture these programmers, just that I think these programmers exist.
All of the above is true and let me add my two cents worth. When I am trying to decide on which tool I am going to use I don't have infinite time to download and test each one, so I look at version number as an indication of how complete and stable the *developers* think it is. If the developers don't think it is stable or complete I usually won't spend time on it. This is on the assumption that they are following the (unwritten) normal numbering practice.
A quick very unscientific poll (at the pub) says many programmers also use version as one of the indicators for what to try, and a version 1.x is more likely to be considered favorably. (comment from some that they would wait for 1.1, they must be using commercial software ;-)
So to indicate to casual/time challenged users that Geany is stable and feature complete I would be in favor of it going to 1.0.
Cheers Lex
BTW I found Geany because it happened to be part of a lightweight distribution rather than actually searching for an editor so its version number didn't matter.
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