Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Version Numbers (Re: The Next Generation) Message-ID: <1148@sugar.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 18:08:47 EST Article-I.D.: sugar.1148 Posted: Mon Nov 30 18:08:47 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 23:28:10 EST References: <5294@ccicpg.UUCP> <2803@cbmvax.UUCP> <516@mcdsun.UUCP> <1604@bsu-cs.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 38 Summary: version numbers are too indiscriminate, not liking them doesn't mean you're not a guru In article <1604@bsu-cs.UUCP>, jdh@bsu-cs.UUCP (John Hiday) writes: > I can't believe this stuff! I consider most of the Amiga users on the > net to be power-users and here I get two semi-flames about how the users > would be too stupid to be able to handle a nice feature like this. Hey pal, just because some of don't like version numbers doesn't mean we're not power users. Also, I don't think either person said users are too stupid to use the capability. I recall that they questioned the usefulness of the capability, particularly on the (by far prevalent) floppy-based systems. I'm not sure what problem version numbers are trying to solve. Version numbers are just too crude for tracking program changes and too indiscriminate to use as a backup tool. They don't do enough for tracking changes on multiuser development projects; you'd want something like sccs or rcs for that. As far as keeping the file when I delete it by accident, sort of do it, as long as you did a "DELETE FOO" rather than "DELETE FOO;*" There are VMS equivalents to "rm *" that will waste your files - including older versions. No, the trashcan solves the problem much better than version numbers, and more appropriately given the machine. I may want backup copies of my source but I sure don't want it for object files and binaries when I'm developing. Even though high-end users are getting hard disks doesn't mean even half the Amigas will ever have hard disks. Indeed, the vast majority will not. > It's very simple. If you think that this concept is over your head > simply do: ... Oh, give me a break. This whole argument is ad hominum; that is, you assert that anyone who disagrees with the concept is just too stupid to understand it. I think you'll find a lot of thoughtful, conscientious, reasonable people who don't like version numbers, but in Muncie - maybe not :-) :-) :-) --