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[jean-pierre charras <jean-pierre.charras@...>]

Jonas Diemer a écrit :
> Hi JP,
>
> nice to see there will be a stable release soon. How about giving it
> a "stable" release number, such as 2.0 (in addition to the date)? We had
> discussions about this 5 months ago or so...
>
> Regards
> Jonas
I know many people prefers this kind of versioning.
I used it some years ago.
But for me it was not very usefull, and I changed it for the more 
powerfull timestamp based identification.

A versioning like year.month.day is very usefull for me in bug tracking 
work (this is the reason I use this kind of versioning).
When a bug is reported (by mail or sourceforge) I know very easily if a 
bug is already soved or not.

Adding an arbitrary version number to a date version is of course possible.
But this is more awkward and is it really very easy for users ?
Is the date not sufficient ?
A lot of applications (outside software world) also use time stamp 
successfully to characterize what they manage.

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