Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.092 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.82; '*S*': 0.00; 'fixes': 0.05; 'subject:method': 0.09; 'tracker,': 0.09; 'cares': 0.16; 'it...': 0.16; 'nostalgic': 0.16; 'subject:function': 0.16; 'subject:python.': 0.16; 'subject:release': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'stick': 0.18; 'possibly': 0.19; '(which': 0.19; "haven't": 0.20; "aren't": 0.21; 'dec': 0.22; 'stuff': 0.22; "doesn't": 0.22; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.22; 'versions': 0.23; 'code': 0.25; 'code.': 0.26; "i'm": 0.26; 'code,': 0.27; 'version,': 0.28; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.28; 'pm,': 0.29; 'subject:support': 0.30; 'version': 0.32; 'changes': 0.32; 'familiar': 0.32; 'tue,': 0.32; 'sort': 0.33; 'rather': 0.33; 'received:209.85.160': 0.33; 'ticket': 0.33; 'updated': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.34; 'probably': 0.34; 'someone': 0.34; 'nobody': 0.34; 'anything': 0.34; 'maintained': 0.34; 'issue': 0.35; 'trouble': 0.35; 'received:209.85.160.46': 0.35; 'received :mail-pw0-f46.google.com': 0.35; 'actively': 0.36; 'to:name :python-list': 0.37; 'two': 0.37; 'with.': 0.37; 'except': 0.37; 'received:google.com': 0.37; 'another': 0.37; 'using': 0.38; 'steven': 0.38; 'received:209.85': 0.38; "i'd": 0.39; 'subject: (': 0.40; "it's": 0.40; 'received:209': 0.40; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'download': 0.60; 'more': 0.61; '2011': 0.61; 'your': 0.61; 'order': 0.62; 'you.': 0.63; 'number.': 0.66; 'fulfill': 0.67; 'day': 0.69; 'informative': 0.73; 'thousand': 0.74; 'guaranteed': 0.77; '-0500,': 0.84; '2020': 0.84; 'difference.': 0.84; 'nathan': 0.84; 'nice,': 0.84; 'opinion.': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=qVyPL+5wqB56j1w3WU7L0aIYe1i5G2DgAG+KX6AruDs=; b=HhGoEAXbykL1UBMQPW9pVLJ4LOd5SC2hCSiNJhK3kBtAKmOCIhxlcvQYonr9XM8Fcg 0tGmkAImpXO1Ng4yia4e85Qmx+IuzJ9BOh5nCcILaZjd5lP2YybgiZlmloHgP7MeX3E5 JaJ/qBa8l0/ygfpo6c5HRddKqdtnKLGk2nTCo= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4ef0f781$0$29973$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> References: <4ef0f03d$0$29973$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <4ef0f781$0$29973$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:20:37 -0500 Subject: Re: Elementwise -//- first release -//- Element-wise (vectorized) function, method and operator support for iterables in python. From: Nathan Rice To: python-list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1324416041 news.xs4all.nl 6856 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:33392 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:17622 On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:45:07 -0500, Nathan Rice wrote: > >> If you take a moment and examine the version number, you will notice >> that it is a date code. > > Not any date code I'm familiar with. 0.111220 doesn't look anything like > a date to me. > > Possibly if the last release was two thousand years ago. I'd rather stick > to actively maintained software, if it's all the same with you. Date code !=3D date. >> In my opinion that is far more informative than >> an arbitrary number. =A0I use the major version number to signify... Wai= t >> for it... Major changes :) > > Well, that's one opinion. Another opinion is that nobody cares what > specific day you release a new version, and that versions 0.191231 and > 0.200101 probably aren't that big a difference. Nobody cares about version numbers in general, except as a way to fulfill dependencies. By using a date code, your versions are guaranteed to sort in release order (which is nice, say if someone was to download your software via FTP), you can tell what release has what ticket fixes in an issue tracker, stuff like that. It also gives me an easy way to be nostalgic about releases.... As for the extra "20" that I exclude, if I haven't updated the major version number by the time 2020 rolls around I deserve any trouble it causes :)