Subject: Maxima 5.21 release branch scheduled for April 1
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:18:12 -0500
On 3/1/10 11:23 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2/28/10, Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Since Maxima has time based releases it would maybe make sense if the
>> version number reflected this. I propose to change the version scheme
>> to Year.Month.Version. The next version could be 10.4.0, 10.4.1,...
>> and the version in August 10.8.0, 10.8.1 and so on.
>>
> Hmm, I dunno, I don't see the point of it.
> I don't think it would be worth the trouble.
>
I kind of agree. In 2011, the version would be 11.x.y, somehow
indicating a huge change from 10.r.s. That would probably not be true.
(Well, *I* would interpret the change in the major number as something
major.)
Ray