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

[Daniel Milde]

John Yeung píše v Po 27. 07. 2009 v 09:30 -0400:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Thomas
> Martitz<thomas.martitz at 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
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Could anybody tell me, what are they arguing about? 

Geany looks really stable for me whole time I'm using it (about 1 year).
It never crashed, so I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be released
as 1.0 due to stability. Or am I missing something?

Regards,
Daniel
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