On Wednesday 25 March 2009 23:05:06 Gary Campbell wrote:
> I've only made one stable (external) release of FCELL:
> Version 6.1.
OK.
>
> I've made hundreds of stable versions in the past 7 years.
>
Stable versions or stable releases? You've used the word "stable" in both
sentences.
> My major number corresponds to a fairly major design
> change or upgrade. A minor number of x.0 means an
> internal version not ready for release.
I see.
>
> One of these days I hope to release version 7.1
> (when I'm finished with 7.0). I don't believe in giving
> every change to the code its own number.
>
OK. You can designate the middle digit as incremental improvement between
releases.
> I find it hard to believe that we are talking about
> numbering schemes and coding techniques when
> actual obstacles and techniques for getting over
> them are so much more interesting!
>
I still find them interesting, but we may differ in what we find as such.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> -Gary
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Shlomi Fish
> To: fc-solve-discuss_at_yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Help ! Solve Game# 10916159
>
>
> Hi Gary!
>
> On Saturday 21 March 2009 18:51:58 Gary Campbell wrote:
> > After making some changes to the 7.0
> > version of my solver, I got the following:
> > Thanks anyway folks!
>
> You're already at version 7.0? Gee, I'm jealous - FCS is only at version
> 2.18.0 (about to be 2.20.0 Real Soon Now™). Of course:
>
> 1. I started from version 0.2 .
>
> 2. I made 20 major ( x.y.0 ) stable releases.
>
> 3. Naturally, I only usually incremented the second digit (by two, to
> follow the old Linux kernel convention of an even second digit number to be
> a stable release). Else, I would have been at Freecell Solver 20.0 by now.
>
> ---------------
>
> Generally, my version increase methodology is followed in most
> open-source software projects led by clueful developers. A few other notes:
>
> 1. Internet Explorer recently released version 8. On the other hand,
> Firefox is only at version 3.0 and about to have version 3.5.
>
> 2. The open-source project with the largest initial version number that
> I'm aware of is GNU Emacs which is currently at version 22.3. What happened
> was that it used to be version 1.Something and then they decided to do it
> without the 1.
>
> 3. PostgreSQL ( http://www.postgresql.org/ ) also has a large version
> number (8.3.7), but to its defence, one can note that it has a long and
> rich development history and that they also don't increment the most major
> number at any point.
>
> 4. MS Windows is now going to have its version 7.
>
> 5. Joel Spolsky wrote an article about version numbers:
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FB4.5.html
>
> ----------------
>
> I don't know when I'll bump the FCS version number to 3.0.0 . It
> certainly gone a long way since version 2.0.0, but I probably want
> something really significant to warrant such a change. But who is John
> Galt?
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
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