On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:27:04PM +1100, Darren Reed wrote: > This is completely off topic but hopefully the mod will let me > rant a little bit about one of the more unprofessional aspects > of "open source software development"... > > > http://www.balabit.hu/downloads/eventlog/0.1/src/ > > Sigh, yet another software package we're being encouraged to > use that the author doesn't feel is upto at least 'version 1.' > > If you're going to make it public, call it version 1.0. The API is still quite vague, so the version number only indicates that it is a development version. Once the API becomes stable it will be versioned 1.0. I don't thing the version number alone means anything 'unprofessional'. And by the way the library was not fully publicized, it was a release for the log-analysis mailing list for review. > > I really hate the idea of using software that's "version 0.45.3". > > After a while you start to feel that you should just remove the > "0." at the front anyway. > > If 0.10 is just 10% of the final release then what's the point > of even advertising it yet ? Go away and come back when it's > all there (ie. you have a 1.0) > > Personally, there's nothing to say that 1.0 must be a particular > state but how do you have version 0's of anything ? Does it > even exist ? It is not yet in 1.0 state and versioning is usually nothing else but personal preferences. Have you actually looked at the code? -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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