Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (198 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Tuesday 2006-12-05 at 09:22 +0100, houghi wrote:

> > Year number version could be nice and informative; for instance, some 
> > new chap buying it on a shop would know if he was getting the latest or 
> > not.
> 
> No, he would not, unless he would know when the last one was made.
> openSUSE 2009.2 Is that an old one or a new one if you buy it in september?

Well, I would buy that 2009.2 version fast! I could be selling it to 
developers, so that they could gain some extra vacation while they copy 
pasted that into the current version ;-)

Seriously, I know of people that were charged about 60 euros in a shop 
for a SuSE box that was over a year old, ie, two versions outdated. That's 
cheating and unfair and unethical and whatever - by the shop owner, of 
course. The buyer was dumb to not check first in internet, but we all do 
dumb things now and then. Perhaps, only perhaps, if the version number of 
software indicated the year that would not be so easy to happen.

But anyway, I'm not for the change. I'm just thinking aloud about it :-)


> > But I would like to see 10.3, .4, .5... etc. No need to change to 11.x 
> > till a really big thing changes, like kernel 2.8.
> 
> That is if version numbering would be dependent on something. It isn't. It
> is just a marketing tool.

I know, I know...

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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