And here I thought you meant component names.....No matter what one does in public, at least one person will find a reason to complain about it. Charity and volunteer work notwithstanding, as this current conversation proves. I expected this of course, but not over such a minor point as version numbering. This is more like looking under rocks, just to point out the worms that lurk there
It 'will' have a proper name eventually I guess, if there is such a thing as 'proper' or 'standard' in this---but why bother when I already know there will be updates soon due to translations? That's the main reason this is still considered beta. This, and compatibility with other mods has not been completely tested, nor has this been added into the BWP (yet).
Have you seen the version numbers on actual games, how long they really are in many cases? Have you complained to game companies, to shorten their nomeclature? Properly, if I used a similar system to many companies, that would be 181.1.3.1001 (main version 181, 1 to denote it's past alpha, into beta stage, 3 for three major rounds of alpha rehash (in private alpha state), and 1001 for first version of it with room for more and minor rehashing if needed (aka bug fix releases, noted in severity with an additional + 0001,0010,0100, or 1000 ). I went "3001" for short....
As per changes in how I named it over the last decade or so, in how things were done--people change over the years. Their ideas evolve as new concepts unfold. Some praise this as progression, and condemn the lack of change as stagnation. I've had very little involvement in IE modding for many years until recently, but much involvement in other games during that lapse. Learned a great deal about making games (and thus mods, etc) in that time. It's changed the way I do things.
NTM-if I had named every update with a completely new version every time over the years, then the complaint might be that the actual version numbers were too long. Because major updates are worth more of a 'version bump' than minor updates. e.g. the bump from v161 to v175, c. 8 years ago. This was the swap from pre-weidu to weidu, and there were a few distinct versions the public never saw (171-174). There used to be a huge stack of patches between versions, as many as 4 or 5 in a day upon a time. I'd at least be in 4 digits by now, without a doubt.
Edited by horred the plague, 19 May 2013 - 02:22 AM.