Am Montag, 4. Juli 2016, 09:45:21 CEST schrieb Mario Beaulieu: > Hi, > > I'm just curious. Why does GForth have a version number 0.7.3 and not > 1.something? It seems to me that GForth is stable and very complete. Do you > have an objective in mind to achieve before you consider it version 1?
No, we consider Gforth as stable and complete, despite it is still in active development, and gets more features as we go (the current development will lead to release 0.8.0). But the 0.x does not mean we consider it not ready for use. We had 0.1beta as beta release ~20 years ago, and from 0.2 on, it was a "production release". A number of other GNU projects also use this number scheme. A number of users leave the leading zero away and call the current stable version "Gforth 7". We are not in the business of big version numbers, though, and despite we release development snapshots frequently, we do full releases infrequently. Consider an official minor release like 0.7.x a LTS version, which only gets a few patches when a new GCC version breaks it. We still have plans, and are working, so Gforth is not "completed" in a sense of "we are done with it, move to something else". The bigger plans are to write our own native code compiler. -- Bernd Paysan "If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself" net2o ID: kQusJzA;7*?t=uy@X}1GWr!+0qqp_Cn176t4(dQ* http://bernd-paysan.de/
