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Re:Stellarium 0.19 by Sharlin on Thursday March 28, 2019 @01:07PM (#19514212)
Stellarium is awesome, but the devs should probably accept that their software has been quite mature for a long time now and either release a 1.0.0 or change their numbering scheme.

Edit: Whence the downvotes? It’s a 20 year old program. I know many OS devs have a certain aversion of making the jump to 1.0, but semver is a useful concept, and versioning that looks like semver, but in practice is not, is not the best way to communicate the maturity of your software to potential users.

Re:Stellarium 0.19 by divan on Thursday March 28, 2019 @02:14PM (#19514945)
Came to the comments to write a similar comment. I've used Stellarium ~10 years ago, and it's been awesome even then.

Seeing v0.19 version feels misleading and discouraging new users to try it out of curiosity.

Re:Stellarium 0.19 by DanBC on Thursday March 28, 2019 @03:54PM (#19515917)
I don't trust version numbers since dBASEII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase

> Hal Pawluk, who handled marketing for the nascent company, decided to change the name to the more business-like "dBase". Pawluk devised the use of lower case "d" and all-caps "BASE" to create a distinctive name. Pawluk suggested calling the new product version two ("II") to suggest it was less buggy than an initial release. dBASE II was the result and became a standard CP/M application along with WordStar and SuperCalc.[15]