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On 3/6/09 11:59 AM, John J Barton wrote:
>> On 3/6/09 11:29 AM, John J Barton wrote:
>>> I suppose this all seems trivial from the inside. It's not the version
>>> checking that is any issue, it's the toll in human communications. Bug
>>> reports, email, news postings all refer to 3.1. These all refer to
>>> something that is now gone. Yes another version will come out called
>>> 3.5, but '3.1' does not go away.
>> Might I suggest that you use codenames (Shiretoko) in the future then?
>> Codenames are created for a reason.
>
> That won't work here:
> this.ff3p1 = versionChecker.compare(appInfo.version, "3.1*") >= 0;
I'm a bit confused here.  You said it is not version checking that is a 
problem, but that it is human communication that is the issue.  I then 
suggested code names, and then you argued that that doesn't work in 
version checking code.  It almost looks like you are arguing for the 
sake of arguing here, which I don't think you actually mean to do.  Can 
you please clarify?

> Plus it's not practical because users don't say that, they say 3.1.
Perhaps that's because developers say 3.1, so that's what users 
associate?  This seems a lot like a chicken and egg problem, honestly.

> This part I don't get: why wouldn't users be delighted with a bulging
> new 3.1?
The same kind of reasons why some users don't like the new location bar 
in Firefox 3.0.  Big changes are scary to users.  Small version bumps 
imply that there aren't many changes, whereas bigger ones imply that 
there will be more.  It's psychological.

Cheers,

Shawn

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