> > 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? :-)

Because the common major.minor.bugfix three-level scheme is not decimal.
It's not like pounds.shillings.pence either, as there is no roll-over.

Olaf

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