Re:MAME 0.276
by g-b-r on Sunday March 30, 2025 @07:37PM
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Wow maybe by the 22th century they'll reach version 1.0 xD
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Re:MAME 0.276
by surgical_fire on Sunday March 30, 2025 @07:54PM
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I personally find it nicer than that obtuse Chrome approach that is now versioned in the hundreds.
Perhaps it is nostalgia, but things were nicer when they had sane release numbers.
MAME is versioned no differently from Chrome. v0.276 might as well be called v276.
Re:MAME 0.276
by surgical_fire on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:43PM
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If Chrome was versioned 0.whatever I would agree.
Since it is not, you are factually wrong.
The 0. prat is irrelevant in MAME, you can see that both projects simply increment the number on every release. They could just as well do v<timestamp> and reap the same monotonically increasing thing with a temporality aspect as well.
I'm with you about that ;)
It's just a number. What makes v102 more sane than vX.Y? It's just what you're used to and personal preference.
I guess people interpreted that as a criticism, but I have a lot of admiration for MAME.
I was just surprised to see that its version has not changed a lot since I last used it, more than 20 years ago ;)
It gives me hope that I haven't changed a lot either :D