Naming of GnuPG

Jamie Griffin jamie at fastmail.net
Sun Apr 20 03:35:44 CEST 2008


now that you've clarified that you're better than us 'normal' folk, perhaps you'd care to explain it in more detail. For the benefit of the list of course.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:45:06PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> David Shaw wrote:
> > Do people find the 1.4.x / 2.0.x thing confusing?
> 
> Speaking for myself, no.  But I'm pretty far from a normal user.
> Regular users are taught to think that bigger version numbers are
> better, more recent, more capable, more bug-free, etc.
> 
> Windows NT 3.51 --> Windows NT 4.0
> Windows 2000 --> Windows 2003 Server
> FreeBSD 5.2 --> FreeBSD 6.0
> Fedora Core 8 --> Fedora Core 9
> GnuPG 1.4 --> GnuPG 2.0
> 
> One of those is not like the other, but I think the average user would
> be hard-pressed to figure which is which.
> 
> 
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