OT: Java versions (was Re: Final Notice: Meeting Today at 4pm EDT - New Room URL)

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 19, 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:36:05PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
>> Wonder what customers would think if I jumped from OneGate 02.11.00 to
>> 32.01.07 in one fell swoop, after adding only about 4 new features.  A bit
>> of hyperbolic comparison, but in the same ballpark in principle.  There
>> would be the same lack of compelling evidence for that high a mark-up.
>> 
>> It's at points like these that version numbers cease to have any meaning,
>> and just become designation labels.  You may as well code-name the product
>> versions, for all the good it does to have numbers there.
>
><chuckle>
>
>You watch Veronica Mars?  The words "Ubuntu" and "Hoary Hedgehog" were
>heard on the second to last ep of the season.  :-)
>
>I'm pretty happy with the numbering over on the PostGreSQL team,
>myself; they're one of the few project teams that seems to give a crap.

Personally I like Knuth's numbering systems.  One package has a version
number converging on PI, another on E (base of naperian logarithms).

Bill
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