On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:16:03 -0500, Jason Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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The obvious problem is: What comes after "i"?
ii? iii? iv?
improved improved, improved improved improved improved very
i means improved, not "the roman numeral i".
Well that may be have been the original intention. I have seen alot of people suggest going with roman numerals as a way to prevent collisions with other projects. It is an interesting coincidence. I am not aware of any projects who has used roman numerals so it will prevent collisions. However there is a good reason why nobody has done it:
- its ugly
- it gets verbose
- the letter "i" isnt the most readable letter .. and several "i"s next too eachother are only making things worse.
Then again like I said it does provide a solution to work around issues like how to deal with standards like:
POP3
IPv6
Or products like: DB2
Doing the obvious and appending numbers will lead to problems which we addressed in PEAR by allowing stuff like this at the developers choice:
1. FooX
2. FoovX
3. Foo_vX
Not particularily a perfect solution either.
regards, Lukas
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