[scribus-dev] Scribus versioning

[Gregory Pittman]

On 06/07/2010 09:42 PM, Craig Bradney wrote:
> On 6/6/10 11:23 PM, a.l.e wrote:
>> hi
>>
>>
>>> What do you think about changing the *release* versioning to 1.4 Beta
>>> 1 (=1.3.8) and 1.4 Beta 2 (=1.3.9)?
>>>
>>> Internal build numbers should be irrelevant, and changing the version
>>> number would help us to get rid of the confusing 1.3.x denotations:
>>>
>>> - 1.3.3.14 (dead)
>>> - 1.4 (Beta until officially released)
>>> - 1.5svn (Experimental until it becomes 1.6 or 2.0 Beta 1)
>>>
>> i think that it's not a good idea to have beta version out for months... google can afford it, but i'm not sure we can...
>>
>> imo, 1.3.8 to 1.3.9 are not the problem, the problem is that we still have 1.3.3.14 as a stable version: we should get rid of it as soon as possible, not play with names and number schemes.

The only thing I would add is that, with all the confusion we already 
have, we don't help matters by calling the stable version "dead", at 
least on this list or other public forums.

Greg