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Bad versioning is happening for years and was introduced by marketing people that wanted to avoid the 1.0 (or so). It is bad that OSS maintainer follow that trend without need; bad habits a easy learned and hard to fight. People that release a 4.0 instead of a 4.0-preXXX either have no clue how to handle numbering in there versioning system or are to lazy to make it propperly. It is ok for the user to complain to this people for releasing a crappy software. I am maintainer myself an i know that they are thing: 4.0 means for them Version 4 (user and developer understand this) .0 (User: the first release of 4; developer: the experimental version of 4). Since the maintainer has the duty to represent the user inside the developing cycle -- his fault.

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