Trying it out
Robert A. (Bob) Morris
ram at CS.UMB.EDU
Fri Aug 11 09:43:48 CEST 2000
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 at GOLDSWORD.COM>
> To: TDWG-SDD at usobi.org
> Subject: Re: Trying it out
>
> >> > 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>
> >>
> >> > 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 at goldsword.com
> Botany Department, University of Tennessee
> http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium
>
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