FOSS software has a lot of "version 0" software out there. Basically, that's how they say "this is beta code!". They generally believe in release early and often.
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:10 AM, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Tom: > > > > How about MVS 2.0 ? > > > I'm not Tom, but I'm quite sure that was Version 1 Release 2 Modification > Level 0. As others have noted, "You can't have a Release 0". > > This is all muddied by inconsistency in including the Version number. VM, > for instance, had VM/XA 1.0 and VM/ESA 1.0 (among others) because the > "Version 1" was implicit (or not even thought of, perhaps). > > Product versioning is arcane and varies across vendors and even within > vendors; some folks think 2.9.13b is somehow more useful/meaningful than > just going to 2.9.14. I don't, but that's me. > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
