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Googly Smythe · Post by **Googly Smythe** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:38 pm

It's not just DAWs. Didn't MS Word go from v3 to v6 tp keep pace with WordPerfect (6)? Something to do with it being the more versions, the better the product. Or some such.

jabe · Post by **jabe** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:39 pm

Winstontaneous wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:27 pm In the other direction - why does Pre-Sonus still call Studio One Studio One? I think they should increment it with each major release, so it would now be Studio Four or whatever.

After the second version, Studio One 2, the next was due to be called Studio One 2 One 2 Testing Testing, but they chickened out and called it Studio One 3.

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:16 pm

[CaptainObvious] Version numbering is pretty arbitrary anyway. [/CaptainObvious]

Googly Smythe · Post by **Googly Smythe** » Mon Oct 22, 2018 8:59 pm

Winstontaneous wrote: ↑Mon Oct 22, 2018 7:27 pm In the other direction - why does Pre-Sonus still call Studio One Studio One? I think they should increment it with each major release, so it would now be Studio Four or whatever.

Maybe this?
https://www.abbeyroad.com/studio-one

t3toooo · Post by **t3toooo** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 2:37 am

They all avoiding the number 13

SoundPorn · Post by **SoundPorn** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:53 pm

Yeah I'm thinking Reaper 6 is close because I downloaded the 5.96 update then they release a 5.961 update i'm like lol so ur playing the 3 digit decimal game now.

farlukar · Post by **farlukar** » Wed Oct 24, 2018 8:28 pm

SoundPorn wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:53 pm Yeah I'm thinking Reaper 6 is close because I downloaded the 5.96 update then they release a 5.961 update i'm like lol so ur playing the 3 digit decimal game now.

And that logically should have been either 5.96.1 or 5.97.
Nefarious.

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:02 am

I never liked the arbitrary nature of decimal versions, although a sub-digit generally means "no changes, a minor fix". A decimal change means "something changed" and a major version change is either "we changed a lot so it's time to reflect that" or "we made a big change you'll really notice: pay us more if you want the new scalable GUI feature!"

In the case of Reaper I think the major versions are essentially "we think it's about time you paid up ya freeloaders".

These versioning schemes sometimes have names, specifications and documentation.

For example: https://semver.org/

funky lime · Post by **funky lime** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 6:25 pm

SoundPorn wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:53 pm Yeah I'm thinking Reaper 6 is close because I downloaded the 5.96 update then they release a 5.961 update i'm like lol so ur playing the 3 digit decimal game now.

They've been on that for at least 12 years now, since version 0.921. They still offer Reaper 0.999 as freeware.
Current pre-release version is: v5.961+dev1022

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:58 am

aciddose wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 9:02 am These versioning schemes sometimes have names, specifications and documentation.

For example: https://semver.org/

Thx for the link! I've been giving presentations on CI-CD for some time, in which I address versioning schemes, and this is the horses mouth I need to add there (apart from the Maven scheme )

DAW version numbers cheating??? ;)