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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