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["Remy" <kicadder@...>]

--- In kicad-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Alain M." <alainm@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
>


Hi all,

I fully agree with Jonas; *most* of kicad users are not developpers,
they are only users. And, since kicad is a usefull program for
electronics, it is used by engineers or hobbyists, and not only by
developpers. Seem to be a good thing for us, and that's the reason for
a common and easy way of version numbering. It can be for example,
Version 2.0, corresponding to the developper's version 2008 09 17 :
clear for users, and usable by developpers.
BTW, it would be great to harmonize the different sites where one can
download Kicad
Just look at these links...
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=145591
http://kicad.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page (frame "download")
http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/cao/change_log.txt
What a mess.

Regards
Remy