On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:07 PM, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:21 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 19:36 -0400, Ted Gould wrote:
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:44 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
That is, in a way the current <1.0 versioning quite misrepresents Inkscape and its features. Lately Hugin (which is a panorama making tool) project adopted the YEAR.EVEN/ODD versioning scheme. Should we probably discuss whether we need something like that?
+1 I hate version numbers. Anything to make them go away makes me happier.
+1 I just went to the Hugin page to see that it was how I thought. I really do like that scheme much better thank our current one.
Let me clarify, I'd say YEAR.INCREMENTING_NUMBER_STARTING_AT_ZERO
A year-based scheme is nice for marketing, but bad for programs.
One main point is that a major/minor scheme allows for compatibility. Given that we are moving more and more to have plugins do more and extending things, versioning is important.
We could have a separate API version and program version, but that would really confuse users.