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.
John