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

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

lördagen den 10 februari 2001 18:06 skrev Paul S Jenner:
> 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.

The Freeciv homepage at <http://www.freeciv.org> says:

"Current stable version: 1.11.4"

I don't think it can be more clear.