Re: New SQL*Developer version numbers

Year-based releases advertise agility. A form of humble-bragging...

On 7/13/17 16:29, Gus Spier wrote:
> It is becoming fashionable to set versions by year ... Thus the second
> version of the software for 2017 might be designated 17.2 ... if they
> get another version out the door this year, we can expect to see 17.3
>
> But what do I know? YMMV
>
> Gus
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Mladen Gogala
> <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com <mailto:gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On July the 11th, there was an update to SQL*Developer and SQLcl.
> The previous version was 4.2. Now, I see this:
>
> SQLcl: Release 17.2.0 Production on Thu Jul 13 18:16:30 2017
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2017, Oracle. All rights reserved.
>
>
> SQL>
>
> Version "17.2"? Really? How did that happen? The same applies to
> SQL*Developer. Functionality is still pretty much the same, I
> haven't encountered any problems yet.
> Regards
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
>

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