What happened to LC version numbers?

[Sean Cole (Pi)]

Microsoft don't count ME or Vista. They were bug test releases that proved
to be more buggy than the bugs they were claiming to repair, so that
7,8,9,10 work consecutively from 1,2,3,95 (9-5=4),98 (v4+
(9-8)=5),XP(abs(ascii-x - ascii-P)=24;2+4=6)
;)

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On 19 July 2017 at 18:12, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Why worry?
>
> When I release a new version of my Devawriter Pro I think of a number,
> multiply it by 3.3 recurring, subtract 7 and claim it
> was all the result of a mystical experience, and, so far, no one has
> complained.
>
> With the shining examples of Microsoft . . . as a kid said to me the other
> day: "How come that boy has just been given an old laptop by his
> Granddad that is running Windows 95 when mine only runs Windows 10?"
>
> and Apple:
>
> System 6, 7, 8, 9 and then "10" (whoops 'X') for the last 15 years,
>
> nobody should let seemingly illogical numbering systems fuss them.
>
> After all . . .  8.1.6 comes AFTER 8.1.5, and DP-8 comes AFTER DP-7, and
> RC-3 comes AFTER RC-2;
> which IS better than Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, ME, Vista, XP, 7, 8, 10 [may
> have left out some there] in
> so many ways I cannot list them.
>
> When is Apple going to release System 11, if ever?
>
> Richmond.
>
> On 7/19/17 7:44 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> On 07/19/2017 06:54 AM, Bob Hall via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>>> Why are we testing a new feature in a RELEASE CANDIDATE version #2? Why
>>> are significant features being added at all to the 8.x branch? What
>>> standard (if any) do Livecode version numbers follow?
>>>
>>
>> I was wondering along the same lines. I have previously been assured that
>> new "features" don't get rolled into release candidate builds, and the only
>> changes in successive rc builds are things that caused regression failures
>> in earlier builds. It seems that this policy has now changed to allow for
>> changes to see how new users will react.
>>
>>
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