[Freeciv-Dev] minor numbers to reflect development vs stable releases?

[Paul S Jenner <psj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

Thanks to all who have developed Freeciv over the years.  This has long been a 
great game and is now pretty much a classic.  Keep it up.

Previously I have been playing freeciv-1.10.X.  I noticed freeciv-1.11.X was 
available but since the minor version number (11) was odd (as opposed to even - 
not strange :-), I assumed in the usual convention it was a development or beta 
release.  Its only when I checked later that I found it was stable.

I realise you use CVS for development but would you consider numbering stable 
releases with even minor version numbers (1.10, 1.12, 1.14 etc.) in the manner 
of the Linux kernel, GTK+, GNOME, Samba etc. to avoid people like me not 
getting the latest stable version through a bad assumption?  I can't see this 
hurting version numbering but I can see it gaining more users of the latest 
version.

Cheers,

Paul

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