Hey, I wrote some software a few years ago, still in use, that I didn't even /release/ until 27.3 !

Susan B. Farmer writes:

Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:35:12 -0400 From: "Susan B. Farmer" sfarmer@GOLDSWORD.COM To: TDWG-SDD@usobi.org Subject: Re: Trying it out

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Treatment build/revision number is a really good idea and we all agreed that we should have had it in our treatments before. <TREATMENT REVISION>0.1</TREATMENT REVISION>

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We use the 0 when the treatment is under development and not released yet. I do not know how to deal with dynamic treatment build revision numbers.

What's meant by this?

I don't think this needs to be in the spec. We're just following software development practice that anything with a revision number less than 1.0 can not be trusted.... Or is that anything less than 2.5?

IME, anything less than 1.0 -- and *nothing* that ends in a 0 even if it is 5.0 ...wait till 5.1!

Susan

Susan Farmer sfarmer@goldsword.com Botany Department, University of Tennessee http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium