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["Alain M." <alainm@...>]

Hi Jean Pierre,

I believe that what people want most is to easyly identify the stable 
version when it comes. FWIK this is what you are doing by calling the 
last version rc1 is just that.

Alain

jean-pierre charras escreveu:
> 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.