Quoting Johannes M Zmoelnig zmoelnig@iem.kug.ac.at:
Well, I see that you are thinking of the release numbers as decimal. I'm not sure if this is really common. (e.g 2.4.9 is lower than
2.4.10
in linux world)
which is true. but i feel somehow (and i think i have seen it, even in linux world), that the successor of 0.99 is rather 1.0 than 0.100
anyhow, i think the argument with "big changes" might be a better one, as it is really more than just the successor of 0.87, and skipping single version numbers (like 0.90) seems even worse.
Ok so it is a big change, but a _major_ reason for that is how long we've been putting this off. It doesn't really matter what the version number is because if we contiue at this rate the 12 releases until 1.0 wouldn't happen until we are all old men!! I don't think we have to fear a 1.0 release in any way. GEM is really getting to the point that it compares pretty well to commercial packages.
So what say you about a release on December 2nd?
and 0.888 is such a beautiful number
The Illinois Pick 3 lotto on Monday night was 0 8 8, so there's a counter argument for you! ;)
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