Thread: What do we know about Diablo (Maemo 4.1) ?
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mwiktowy is offline mwiktowy
2008-05-06 , 20:43
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#184
Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Nokia considers point releases differently than, say, Microsoft, where we have NT 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 all billed as completely new releases, and with the versioning very much swept under the rug.
Version numbering is mostly a marketing thing, it would seem. Very different from project to project and very subjective. There are some stability-based versioning schemes out there but you still have to know the specific project cultural knowledge to know what they mean by version 2.9.

I kind of like the more objective, date-based versioning that Ubuntu and Gentoo use. Doesn't really tell you about the stability of it, but if every project used this at least you would roughly know what version of some dependency should go with what. Not perfect but better.