In message 42848A5C5A0D1E47B026E644DD49B08E028D8045@mail you wrote:
IMHO I think it is best to stick with the same version numbering scheme that you started with, even if it is not perfect. The alternative timestamp scheme is not perfect either. You can probably find as many advantages for one as for the other, and the same goes for the disadvantages.
Well, obvious advantages of the timestamp based version number include:
* It better matches our current development model, which is planning for a more or less fixed relese cycle (versus foir example feature based releases).
* It makes it much more easy to find out how old a version is. At the moment, if someone reports problems with version 1.1.2 you probably know that this is old stuff, but how old exactly? If the name was 1.04.04 you would have seen immediately that this was a version from April 2004, and this is *really* old.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk