On Monday 14 December 2009 05:46:11 Chris Wilkinson wrote: > There could have been any number of better ways to express the version > number, but they chose to use one that can combine more than one decimal > place into what looks to a lay person like a mistyped number... not > clever.
Well they chose major and minor version numbers delimited by a dot, which can and is easily extended to even finer granularity by just adding another group or two. It's certainly no perfect system, but it's been adopted in practically the whole computer industry, software and hardware. So FlightGear is in fairly good company there. The chances that someone would misunderstand this universally adopted scheme are quite small if you ask me. People seem to cope with it quite well, as they do with IPv4 addresses which are usually written as four groups of numbers seperated by the same dot: 123.45.67.089 And anyway: here in Europe (except for the UK and Ireland), we don't even use a dot as decimal separator. We use the comma while the dot is used for grouping thousands. And it's the same in many other parts of the world, for example South America. So what's wrong again with using the same system that just about everyone else uses? Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
