Use-cases for version ranges?

[cowwoc]

Tim,

     Well put. I was on a bit of a roll (off the side of a cliff) 
earlier on today ;) Surely you understand what I mean. Readability is 
the bread and butter of the software development experience. We need to 
make this as pleasant as possible.

Gili

On 21/11/2011 4:46 PM, Tim Diekmann [via jigsaw-dev] wrote:
> Interesting comment. Working in a company that builds enterprise 
> software, we are more concerned in making the experience using our 
> software easier for our users, which means that we shoulder the burden 
> of the hard stuff for them. In the end, it is our customers that pay 
> our bills.
>
>
>         Tim.
>
> "There is never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough 
> time to do it over"
>   -- Murphy's Law
>
> On Nov 21, 2011, at 1:04 PM, cowwoc wrote:
>
> >
> >     I get the feeling that someone doesn't care about readability or
> > usability ;) Computers should be working hard to make humans happy, not
> > the other way around.
> >
> > Gili
> >
> > On 21/11/2011 3:37 PM, Tim Diekmann [via jigsaw-dev] wrote:
> >>> The naming convention is version based. It looks like:
> >>>
> >>> interface Collections {}
> >>> interface Collections_1_2 extends Collections {}
> >>> interface Collections_1_2_1 extends Collections_1_2 {}
> >>> interface Collections_1_3 extends Collections_1_2_1 {}
> >>>
> >>> We attempted this at Orbitz and it was not pretty in practice.
> >>
> >> But did it work or cause other problems?
> >>
> >>  Tim.
>
>
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