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Just a tought

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Contributed by: Saturday, April 22 2006 @ 11:49 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: NO

With every update the dev. gets to add about 1/2 a version numbr.. I have bought this like under a year ago, and that was like version 5 or something. now already version 7 something.. Man in 2 weeks we will be at version 10 and after one month version 22.5 People beaware that the version number of this is not how long it has been updated and in use, it is just the dev. likes to upgrade the version number by .5 or 1 hole version everytime. Not like photoshop or every other program with same version numbers. this is just a selling tec, to nake it seem like it is very dev. that said, it works pretty well. I will not rate this as I have already but be advise that the dev, updates version number by 5 to 1 full number evertime.. I am waiting for version. 250 in the next 3 months ..

Nice app all the same.   

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Just a tought - Wm. Cerniuk

Since inviting the UNIX croud in, the version numbers have been rather random and in some cases nonsense. Version number elements *never* begin with 0. A version number while under development is the target number and when the version is ratified for release, it stays the same. Build numbers should never be shown to the pubic unless the software is beta. Releasing software as a build number shows that there is a lack of quality control and the release point is being determined by the clock or marketing people, not by quality or achieving a documented goal. Last, the definition of the number system (initially from Microsoft believe it or not) is: X.Y.Z. Z is a bug fix release, frequently with little or no feature additions. Z numbering starts over at 1 when Y is incremented. Y is the feature enhancement update version, usually with bug fixes as well but the majority of the update is to add new features. Y starts over at 1 when X is incremented. X is a complete overhaul and has so many fundamental changes that it requires a re-write of the manual. Expect to pay for X updates, sometimes but not always Y updates and *never* pay for Z updates. This is how it worked for 15 years before Mac OS X. MS, using the industry standard mechanism, is legitimately something like 1.5.2

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