2010/2/4 Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net>: > ross k wrote: >> >> I know this subject is a contentious one so Ill just make a quick comment... >> >>> It would however mean that people that wanted a stable release to install on >>> a server they can't change every couple of weeks, would chose an X.Y.1, or >>> an X.Y.2, safe in the knowledge that it should be quite stable, as only bug >>> fixes were applied. >>> . . . >>> Wolfram Research do that too, with their X.Y.Z. A major release was >>> Mathematica 6. Only bug fixes were applied in 6.0.1 - there was no new >>> functionality. >> >> Thats how I was deciding to upgrade a few months ago and I guess a >> number of people and companies think of versioning like this >> (including as you said Mathematica etc). > > It is a pretty standard way in software development. But with billions of > tickets merged into 4.3.1 (William's words) > > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/6c42bcd951a9f526 > > basing your decision on a Sage version number would not be very useful. > > I believe Sage is sufficiently mature that is should start being a bit more > like Mathematica, though I'm not suggesting a major release is made on > average every theee years, which is what Mathematica have done. I think its > been going 20 years, and is still only at version 7. >
As long as I'm involved, Sage is not ever going to have a release cycle anything like Mathematica. Your wasting your time suggesting that. > I can't see there being a lot of take up of Sage in commercial companies when > the latest stable release is changing every month or so. Seriously, can anybody really see Sage ever getting taken up by "a lot of commercial companies" unless there is a support company in place like one has with RedHat, Novell, etc.? When there is a company standing behind supporting Sage, with paying customers, paid employees, and support contracts, then that company can have releases like you describe if that is actually what those paying customers want. William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
