Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Which version is 4.01 ?

PhilC opened this issue on Jan 07, 2003 ยท 20 posts


MartinC posted Wed, 08 January 2003 at 3:13 AM

They only change the ".cr2" version when the format (or the way how Poser accesses it) actually changes, and that was in the German/French 4.0.1 for the last time. I remember this clearly, because the final debugging phase of Macinstaller was a nightmare. I worked with the German versions at that time (first some 4.0.1 betas then the 4.0.1 final), but my own beta testers were running the US 4.0. At one point we got really big problems where Macinstaller completely failed to retreive information from the Poser application. It was only then when I realized how far the edits of the 4.0.1 versions went. Consequently a considerable amount of Macinstaller code only dealt with compatibilty issues between 4.0 vs. 4.0.1. Afterwards, hardly any problems with 4.0.2.x and 4.0.3 occured, so I assume that they only have minor edits to 4.0.1 (and the ".cr2" version numbering sticked to 4.0.1). The 118 beta indeed was before 4.0.2 - that's an oddity in the "common school of version numbering arts"... people would expect a version number jump when the thing goes final, instead it just gets rid of the "b" - so the development cycle goes 1.2.3d1, 1.2.3d2,... 1.2.3a1, 1.2.3a2,... 1.2.3b1, 1.2.3b2,... 1.2.3b235,... and finally: 1.2.3