[Info-vax] New version of Putty released

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/17/2011 5:18 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote 2011-07-17 04:29:
>> On 7/14/2011 3:35 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>> MG wrote 2011-07-14 19:38:
>>>> On 14-7-2011 12:13, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>> So he himself regards the latest "release version" to be
>>>>> a "beta" release...
>>>>
>>>> Isn't anything by definition smaller than 1.0 still beta?
>>>
>>> Yes, my point, in a way...
>>> Isn't Pytty old enough now to be *at least* a 1.x release ?
>>
>> Version numbering schemes differ a lot.
>>
>> OpenSSL used 0.9.something for more than a decade.
>>
>> Google Chrome went from 1 to 12 in less than 3 years.
>>
>> I would not conclude too much from version numbers.
>>
>
> Usualy one does.
> Anyting 0.x isn't "ready" yet, in my view.

That was how it was intended to be.

But today it is a mess.

Some open source projects use 0.x forever.

Some commercial products make major version bump
every few months.

Some has switched to use time of release instead
of a real version number.

Arne