<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9166" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9165"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9164"><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9163"><div id="yiv6304140260"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9162"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9161"><div class="yiv6304140260gmail_extra" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9160"><div class="yiv6304140260gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9159"><blockquote class="yiv6304140260gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9169"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9168"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9167"><div id="yiv6304140260m_5589778189791886428yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493327171590_3336"></div><div id="yiv6304140260m_5589778189791886428yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493327171590_3419">Using "alpha" to mean you are in the stable, early stages of a process that may never <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yiv6304140260m_5589778189791886428yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493327171590_3420">actually be completed is confusing.</div></div></div></blockquote><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9261"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9286"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9285">> It is, and, if anything, I already considered that cyclone should have jumped to "1.0", instead of being released as "0.3 alpha-1", and now the 0.3 alpha-2 is much more like "1.0.1" - perhaps we should go ahead and just do it, I don't know...</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9287"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9288">You could do that, but it's not what I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting to keep the <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9289">major version at "0". That signifies that you're still working on getting the library <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9337">to have the interface you desire-- that is, the Max/MSP 7 set of objects (or whatever <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9319">your goal happens to be). Then use "alpha" and "beta" in their common usage, <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9308">to convey the stability of the version of the library you are about to release.<br></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9322"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9324">> But my only point is that our current version is just much more advanced and stable, fixed, and cleaned up than the earlier versions. You really shouldn't worry about it being "unstable" as it is now...</div><div class="yiv6304140260yqt3320146603" id="yiv6304140260yqtfd70964"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9327"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9326"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9386">Ah, ok. Then I would *strongly* suggest not to use the words "alpha" and <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9427" dir="ltr">"beta" in the way that you currently are. It's too confusing.<br></div><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9534">-Jonathan<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9539"><br></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493333072420_9442">> cheers</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>