On Tue, Jun 28, 2016, at 11:23 AM, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> On 06/28/2016 08:43 AM, Moses McKnight wrote:
> > Another item I'm considering is changing the version to 3.0 for the next
> > release.  Any thoughts pro or con?  If we don't change it this time, I would
> > recommend using 2.8 now, 2.9 for the next major release and then 3.0 
> > (instead of
> > 2.10 etc)
> The version is just a number to me, as long as it's monotonically 
> increasing I'm happy.
> 
> I see no reason that .10 should be disallowed or should trigger the 
> change to 3.0.  If 3.0 follows 2.9 by policy, then we should just drop 
> the decimal point, it doesn't add anything at that point.

Depends on how you define "monotonically increasing".

Interpreted character-by-character as a string, 2.10 sorts before 2.2
Interpreted as a floating point number, 2.10 sorts before 2.2

It is only monotonically increasing if you interpret it as two integers
separated by a dot.  Humans can interpret it any way they want, but
how do programs interpret it?

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  John Kasunich
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