It should be 2
Dave Orchard has a great piece about
how groups use version numbers as a marketing gimmick. He points out, quite rightly, that XML 1.1 should be called XML 2.0 because it is not forwards-compatible with XML 1.0. We see this all the time with other products that use completely wonky version numbering schemes, like having years' worth of releases numbered 0.something.
Counting isn't that hard, and neither are simple rules like "next integer if it's not forwards-compatible, and next tenth if there are any new features".
Posted by lookit at December 2, 2004 07:53 PM