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[Tachikoma]

You know how mods have a number after them like Infiltration 2.9. I was wondering what does the number mean. I mean what determines the number of the next patch that comes out. Is it based on time spent or the file size. What's the deal?

 

[yurch]

They are (like most anything people do) usually chosen arbitrarily by whatever "seemed a good idea at the time".

 

[Losus_Deliosus]

In the case of Infiltration's version number, which is #.# the first number (before the dot) represents the major release version, and the second number (after the dot) represents the minor release number. In the case of Infiltration 2.9 it means it is at fairly much the end-of-life of its second major release, as in 2nd major release and not exacty 9th version of the 2nd release but in this case sorta 9 out of a scale of 10 finished the 2nd release...errr, but dont quote me on this, its late and I might be talking jiberish. Anyways, its also common to incude two more sets of numbers after the major/minor release numbers, these are major and minor revision numbers, and these are usually associated to patched releases (take a look at kernel.org and the linux kernel version numbers as they are a good example of about every type of version identifier thrown into a name). However, major/minor release and revision numbers are not the only type of version numbers used, some developers like to use a date code instead of a version number, like 20060506 if they released something today. Now I just realized I may have getting a little sidetracked...To answer your other question about who/what determines the version, quite honestly that is completely up to the developer in the end, he could create the version number for his release by the number of zits on his face or the number of hairs on his head, but the most common version systems that I see are the major/minor system and the timestamp version meantioned before.

Hope that answers your question, if not hopefully someone more fitting can answer it.

 

[ant75]

In the case of Inf, the "2.9" was just a big scheme to make us think there would be a "3.0" version.

 

[2_SeeK_U]

In the case of Inf, the "2.9" was just a big scheme to make us think there would be a "3.0" version.

Hahaha... you might be on to something!!!

 

[TheShiningWizard]

I still think 2.9 should have been 2.87, just for the humor in making us wait over a year for a .01 version number increase .

 

[AlmostAlive]

There was a discussion once about calling it 3.0 instead of 2.9. If memory serves me right, we were all very drunk and in our state of intoxication we "decided" that we'd call it 2.9 because the alcohol was telling us that we might release "something after 2.9". Like an update or something. As proven by the time passed since the release of 2.9, we all decided to get more alcohol instead of working on an update. (Al)most of us have been drunk since.

 

[anaemic]

i still like to think of it as 2.87

 

[ant75]

It should now be called Infiltration Ω, because it is the last thing we're gonna see under the label "infiltration".

 

[TheShiningWizard]

I should reinstall it, just for kicks.

 

[Pipe_Dream]

Like an update

Yeah, we know. "Gay" isn't funny anymore. It's played out. You've said it a million times since the whole "Norgay" thing.

 

[AlmostAlive]

You could at least try to be a bit creative in your trolling. You are just being boring.