[Geany] version numbers - Re: Quo vadis, Geany?

[Frank Lanitz]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:45:27 +0100
Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:00:47 +1000
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2009/7/15 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>
> > 
> > > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:44:42 +0200, Thomas wrote:
> > >
> > > >Nick Treleaven schrieb:
> > > >>  so sometime we can release v1.0.
> > > >
> > > >No, don't! :P
> 
> Haha!
> 
> > For why should it be increasing? Perhaps Geany could start a trend
> > of decreasing version numbers starting from version 2^32 and when
> > it reaches zero that would indeed be a milestone ;-)
> 
> Then continue with negative numbers ;-)
> 
> Personally I'm not updating Firefox again 'til they release 3.5 +
> 1.1i.

Why not in a form like this? 
r * e^(i*phi) 

> > 0.17 does look low.  So the
> > only reason to go to 1.0 would be to enhance your marketing in
> > support of world domination!!
> 
> Agreed, it's worth it for the marketing benefits.

I doubt that there is really a benefit for marketing. At least inside
the group of users Geany is addressing. 

Cheers, 
Frank
-- 
http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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