Monday, 1 August 2011

A plea for sanity in software versioning

Holy cow, when did it get so hard to make sense of software version numbers?

If you use Google's Chrome Web browser, you're probably using version 12 right now. If you've configured it for the bleeding-edge developer channel, you might be on version 14. By comparison, the Oracle database is on version 11, and it's been around since the 1970s. Chrome must be a pretty mature product, right?

Not really. The first, early-preview release of Chrome shipped in September 2008. That makes 12 major-version releases in less than three years.

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