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On Sunday 08 January 2006 5:28 pm, Ben Goodger wrote: > On 08/01/06, Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Smarttech provides OSX, Solaris, AIX, Irix and some Linux software > > (outdated Red Hat, Mandrake & SuSE). Though their OSX software is V8.1.4 > > and everything else is V8.0, without USB support. Whereas their Windows > > Software is V9.1.4... > > Promethean provide Windows, Mac OS9 & OSX software only, again the > > Windows software has the higher version number. > > AOL's latest client for Mac OSX is v.8, but this doesn't mean that it's a > port of v.8. It's simply the eigth version released for OSX. > Release dates and feature lists are more useful than comparing version > numbers. That may be true for proprietary code but that does not mean it's a sensible or logical way to do it. :-) Be grateful that in free software, version 0.11.8 on Fedora is the same version as 0.11.8 on SuSE, Debian, Gentoo or anything else. It does get complex when packages have multiple build options, SuSE is famous for further complicating packages like gnucash by enabling and disabling some v.weird switches. However, packaging components aside, the version is the same - as it should be. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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