Tim Larson wrote:
>
> Daniel Veditz wrote:
> > Pure rumor, we're all still recuperating from 6.0
> >
> > Given a serious enough security hole we might spin an emergency 6._01_ in a
> > week, but not a general bugfix upgrade. Certainly not a performance upgrade
> > which will take some redesign to accomplish.
>
> I don't know how the world got into the habit of using broken version
> numbers. The first bugfix release should be 6.0.1, shouldn't it? Basing
> these things on padding rather than separators seems pretty dubious, at
> least to me.
If traditional British currency and more recently the American stock markets
can be decimalized, why not version numbers too? :-)
-Dan Veditz
