[discussion] Schema of Valentina server licensing

[Robert Brenstein]

>Exactly as I have describe.
>Just we will not have for 2.0 so minor release 2.1 2.2 2.3
>We will get 2.5, 3.0 3.5, 4.0

I am afraid not exactly (see my previous post - reply for Lynn). The 
version numbers I used were just examples. I don't care what you call 
them. Of course, using the sort of standard "major.minor.bug" 
notation may help keeping things clean.

>  > This is not so outrageous request. Go to FileMaker Pro -- updaters
>>  (bug fix releases) for all releases starting from version 4.0 are
>>  there. Go to CodeWarrior's site -- updaters for most of the versions
>>  not just last one are available.
>
>No Robert. You wrong here.

Sorry, I don't think I am wrong :)

>At first CodeWarrior releases 7.0, then during next 2-3 months they ship
>free update 7.2 and 7.3
>Then code Warrior 8.0 is shipped. And in the next few months bug fix
>updates: 8.2 and 8.3.

Yes, but they ship 7.2 and 7.3 while working on 8. You force us to 
use betas of 8 and don't bother with bug releases for shipping 
versions (yes, I know that in your mind those betas are bug fixes but 
technically and legally they are not).

>But you still see on site all this 4 updates.
>And they DO NOT change in any way 7.3. It is freezed forever.

Yes, exactly.

>So what you point is in fact the OLD VERSION ARCHIVES on the site.
>For us this is more hard to do, because we have about 20-30 different
>download archives for EACH version....they have only 4.

You do not have to archive every single beta you issue. That's 
nonsense. Beta's are just beta's and they vanish the moment the 
release goes public.

If you start releasing bug fixes for your officially shipping 
versions, then you will have only one downloadable for each shipping 
version of each product (since you do not release updaters but full 
releases). You do not have that many public releases that this should 
become a problem any time soon.

If you think about ocassional requests to keep previous beta for 
downloading (for situations where current beta was not usable for 
some reason), this is a different issue.

Robert