LWN: Comments on "MySQL 4.1.0 released"

MySQL have very good versioning

coriordan — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:37:43 +0000

Actually, MySQL's version scheme is very good.

> could we start calling this 4.1alpha1

No, that's not what the "alpha" means. "alpha" refers to how tested the
new parts of the code are. In a month or two, when all major bugs
have been squashed, a version (maybe 4.1.4) will be judged as "beta"
quality. Once bug reports stop coming in for 4.1.X they will announce
that it is "Production" quality (this could be 4.1.20 or 4.1.15 or whatever)

The Apache Foundation run a similar scheme. The actual version number of
"Apache 2.0" was 2.0.24.

It's a bit like calling Linux 2.5 "Alpha" and, 2.4.21 "Production".

One of it's purposes is to show the different user groups when they should
adopt the new version. Most developers probably use the Alpha or Beta
branches, while mission-critical datacenters would only use Production
branches.

Ciaran O'Riordan

MySQL 4.1.0 released

Baylink — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:32:25 +0000

It's version number is 4.1.0... but it's an *ALPHA*.

"Just keep repeating it until they follow along" seems to be working for Bush... could we start calling this 4.1alpha1, like real software engineers, and hope that it might stick?

MySQL 4.1.0 released

Dom2 — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:31:23 +0000

Hmmm, I'm curious as to how a join would work on two columns of different character sets....

-Dom