[Pkg-osg-devel] [Debian External Health System] openscenegraph: New upstream version available

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

On Saturday 23 April 2011 11:59:51 Alberto Luaces wrote:
> [...]
> I agree with you in the fact that the versioning can confuse anyone not
> following the mailing list, and that the homepage is not being correctly
> synchronised either. The fact of the book having "3.0" in the title
> demonstrates how soon that release was expected to be :) Obviuosly, the
> book covers features up to the ones available in the trunk at the time
> of the writing, so it can be a bit outdated when 3.0 comes out.

OK, thanks for the explanation.  Although I didn't ask for it, it was just a 
small rant, it's nice to have it explained :)

The main problem that I see with this "policy" (or lack thereof, or whatever 
you call it) is that maybe the writers of the book are quite pissed off if 
their customers find that OSG 3.0 is not released when they buy the book 
(which might be quite a few people by now) and furthermore, if the examples 
of their book do not work because some changes in A or B.

I think that by delaying releases in such a way, although the reason of 
being paid to work in other areas is powerful, might be killing the goose 
that lays the golden eggs, alienating customers (not us, but more important 
ones like people who invest lots of time, effort and money to publish books 
about it; big companies; etc) toward other similar solutions, thus hampering 
OSG in the long run.

Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>