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Number   :  2805
Date     :  2002-09-15
Author   :  Jon Hugdahl
Subject  :  Re: Digest Number 422
Size(KB) :  1


Why not v.2.82.3.1 for a version localized to v.2.82.3. Of course then your file
names would need adjustment to allowing 5 chars for the version number. You could
also use lfn instead of sfn, at least for the downloaded version.

xxcopy@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:06:44 -0500
> From: Kan Yabumoto 
> Subject: Re: New version posted (v. 2.82.4)
>
> Hi all,
>
> Michael was right. I was careless when I called this update
> v.2.82.4. Since the last beta test release was v.2.92.6,
> the latest release should have been v.2.82.7 (or as a betatest
> version, v.2.92.7) if we were to be consistent and honor our
> published scheme of giving the version number.
>
> The blunder that took place this time was due to the fact
> that we have been working on a betatest version for
> some time and we have been calling it v.2.92.7. The
> unexpected nature of this release (for XP SP1 problem
> and the minor bug fix) threw us off balance...
>
> As to the funny numbering system, we borrowed the scheme
> from Linux, as we said before. For betatest releases,
> we assign an odd number for the second digit. In order
> to compare a pair of version for their age, just subtract
> one from the odd 2nd digit and compare them. When we learned
> how Linux numbering works, we thought it was a cool scheme.
> But, receiving questions about the version number so often,
> we started have doubt about the wisdom of this scheme for
> XXCOPY.
>
> May be this is a good time to abandon this 2nd-digit encoding
> scheme and make both the release version and betatest version
> interleave using even/odd encoding. That may be much more
> straightforward.
>
> We will make up our mind by the time release the next
> version one way or another.
>
> Kan Yabumoto



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