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Jan 15, 2006, 01:08 PM
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Good call, UF. I vote yay for renaming. I think it would be a good thing for the patch.

I think it's very vital to rename it. Despite making it less official sounding, it would make it feel more like a real patch, and not a gimmick. Because the '1.25' name mostly shows the contrast about what it is not, to me, and for me, it loses its seriousness.

Also, 1.25 was already started on by the jj2 developers. Not code-wise, I think, but planning-wise it was. This was visible in how they collected ideas for the patch during the J2C/JC time. Naming it 1.25 is essentially having it use an already-existing patch name. It's just not serious and 100% clean, which it should be, for the good of this patch.

I kind of have an 'emotional' stake in this (you might have noticed), as I started up the 1.25 council and brought the source code debate to the community. The forum still exists (want access? you meet the criteria, but you've never asked. it contains *some* useful info on stuff), and it's rather weird to have the '1.25 council' name be suddenly be meaning something totally different. It's essentially copying the name of an idea that has existed since way before these patches. And 1.25 sounds like it's official, while only the code rights owners should have the power to act like they're increasing version numbers.
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