[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-sysadm] [496] update version in Makefile

Fri Feb 11 00:48:06 CET 2011

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 23:57, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Thomas Backlund <tmb at iki.fi> wrote:
+>> Well, the downside of using a year as a release number, is that after a
+>> year, people will think that the release is old... even if its still
+>> supported...
+>
+> Thomas your point is more than valid for me.
+
+Same for me.
+
+Using a year/time-attached version number forces the obsolescence of a
+product and pushes forward the _requirement_ to release a new version
+each time to keep on par.
+
+Using a single numeric increment makes it clear that:
+ - it starts back from a fresh state (here, 1)
+ - a version does not get obsolete because it is versioned after the
+past year, but because there's just a new version with an obviously
+higher version number (and small numbers are easier to grasp and
+compare).
+
+Romain
+