If you're an extension or theme author, now is the time to start paying attention to the builds as we approach the Firefox 0.10 (aka 1.0 PR) and Thunderbird 0.8 releases. You will want to make sure your extensions or themes are still compatible and get ready to rev your max-version at update.mozilla.org. You can read more about this at the Updating Your Extensions document.
Posted by asa at August 16, 2004 07:53 PMYou meant Firefix 1.0 right ?-)
Posted by: Daniel Glazman on August 16, 2004 11:56 PMYeah, he means 1.0. However, that's not a typo, that's perfectly correct, the internal name for the upcoming version.
Posted by: Tomas on August 17, 2004 12:03 AMCould someone please correct the "Custom Update RDF Format" example? This is simply plain wrong -> http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/
Posted by: Anonymous on August 17, 2004 12:45 AMDaniel, no, I meant "0.10", the next Firefox release after 0.9 , also known as "1.0 PR" to the general public.
--Asa
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on August 17, 2004 07:38 AM0.10 is not greater than 0.9! 0.10 == 0.1, and we've been there already!
(Yes I know it frequently is in software version numbering but it irritates me because it makes no sense! Leave enough room to update it properly and use sub points if you really must but don't confuse people with illogical numbering!)
OK, I'll get off my high horse and go away now!
Posted by: Duncan on August 17, 2004 08:40 AMDuncan, the general public will not see this, so it won't confuse them. Everyone besides developers, who should know that many programs use this kind of numbering (which is distinct from mathematical decimal notation), will know this as 1.0 Preview Release.
The last time I tried a "something-point-oh" preview release was with Netscape 6.0. Hopefully this one will be better. :-)
Posted by: Robert Morris on August 17, 2004 09:02 AMDuncan, Ben has stated that mozilla's version parsing is a dot-separated list of integers. You can't be limited to 9 new minor version releases just because there are 9 digits greater than 0. Using integers helps. Also, you can't just bump up the third digit (0.9.x) because that would mean that this is a small revision of the 0.9 milestone. It isn't, and therefore it gets a 0.10 (zero point ten) name with it's own set of minor adjustments (0.10.1). Ben did realize the confusion, so he coined 1.0PR, to help ease the public's mind.
Posted by: Mike G on August 17, 2004 10:05 AM> 0.10 is not greater than 0.9! 0.10 == 0.1, and we've been there already!
"0.10" != "0.1"
The version isNaN("0.9.3")
Posted by: Anonymous on August 18, 2004 07:22 AM"0.10 is not greater than 0.9! 0.10 == 0.1, and we've been there already!"
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on August 18, 2004 12:45 PM