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Old 03-23-2012, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
I vote for PowerArchiver v13.0. Prominently displaying that the program is in its 13th major version shows that it is a very mature piece of code that's been around a long time and trusted by its users.
The version number don't tell the user how old the current version is. Instead I suggest you skip the version number in the name and instead use YY.MM in the name. That way the name will tell you how long the current version has been released.

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Naming it something like PowerArchiver 2012 or 2013 really doesn't reveal anything about how mature/reliable the program or the program's roots.
You can say the same by using version number. The version number doesn't tell you anything about how mature/reliable the program is. Example of this is Inkscape that has version 0.48, but is a very mature and reliable program. On the other hand, Firefox release a new version number every 6 week, but that doesn't make the program more mature.

The point is, version number don't matter and therefore don't have to be part of the software name.

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Micke
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