Don't overestimate the power of versions (DHH)

By David Heinemeier Hansson on December 30, 2007 I've long been impressed and puzzled by the power of big version numbers. To open source projects like Ruby on Rails, it's such a divorced measure of quality or features that I feel we need to take it's importance down a few notches. First of all, nothing magical happens when a certain revision of the code base is blessed with a release. It's simply

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"I think the main problem is that people do not differentiate between low-level systems, like their OS, web server, or database server, and high-level frameworks like Rails. The latter are never unstable in the traditional sense of the word like the former."