Version naming

[delphinen]

I think naming Compiz development version 0.5 and Compiz stable version 0.4 was wrong.
People think that version 0.5 > 0.4, so they simply go for the 0.5 release, while the 0.4 its a lot better at this moment.

Just a thought.

[RYX]

That's true, but I guess David is just following the kernel-versioning-style. Odd numbers are development versions and even numbers are stable versions. Maybe people could be informed about each versions advantages and disadvantages in some better way ...

[euskal]

Maybe people could be informed about each versions advantages and disadvantages in some better way ...
that version scheme is from C programs, the fol(c)klorik way ... 1.0 is supposed to be the final program, the "end-product",

nowadays programmers have forgotten this rules...

like Ubuntu's developers that "count" realeses with dates....bad way (tm),
whereas Gnome follows that rule.... :D (tm)

I always try to stuck to even numbers specially on low versions numbers... It gives me less "dependencies" headaches

i.e glibc-2.5, is stable and gcc 4.1.1 is supposed to be stable and compiles fine most programs out there,

In the other hand avant-window-navigator (in development, & which has lower versioning,), crashed on version 0.1.1.2 and not in any other lower versions 0.1.1.1, 0.1.1.0 ...(just a random example, nothing particular)

so how I am suppose to guess which is stable and which is not?, I guess the rule is now, at the bigger funkity version numbers, the more uncertain on which one is stable..

hmmm google has an awesome answer on the topic
Why even numbers are better? (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the+answer+to+life%2C+the+universe%2C+and+everyt hing&btnG=Google+Search)
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[euskal]

seriously speaking the best way would be to check, if your distro has marked that compiz version as stable ....(but it is seems a bit confusing depending how ur distro evaluates packages)

here is gentoo's page (compiz-0.4 ebuild was skipped, anyway cp compiz-0.5.0.ebuild compiz-0.4.0.ebuildshould do the work)

http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=compiz

ubuntu's

http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=compiz&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all

debian's

http://packages.debian.org/

rpm's

:? sorry there are too much rpm packages pages out there

tgz-based distros excellent search page:

http://packages.slackware.it/search.php?v=current&t=1&q=compiz

edit:(now the debian page is up !! already! :D )