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<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 10, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:49:04 +0000<br>Rob Cliffe <<a href="mailto:rob.cliffe@btinternet.com">rob.cliffe@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">But "minor version" and "major version" are readily understandable to <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the general reader, e.g. me, whereas "feature release" and "release <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">series" I find are not. Couldn't the first two terms be defined once <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and then used throughout?<br></blockquote><br>To me "minor" is a bugfix release, e.g. 2.7.2, and "major" is a feature<br>release, e.g. 3.3. I have a hard time considering 3.2 or 3.3 "minor".<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Whatever your personal feelings, there is a precedent established in the API:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>>>> sys.version_info.major</div></div><div><div>2</div></div><div><div>>>> sys.version_info.minor</div></div><div><div>7</div></div><div><div>>>> sys.version_info.micro</div></div><div><div>1</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>This strikes me as the most authoritative definition of the terms, in the context of Python. (Although the fact that this precedent is widely established elsewhere doesn't hurt.)</div><div><br></div><div>Whatever term is chosen, the important thing is to apply the terminology consistently so that it's clear what is meant. I doubt that anyone has a term which every reader will intuitively and immediately associate with "middle dot-separated digit increment by one".</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to emphasize the importance of a release, just choose a subjective term aside from "major" or "minor".</div><div><br></div><div>-glyph</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>
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