Olaf Titz wrote:
>
> > > 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.
For the humor impaired, the notation ":-)" often means "don't take me
seriously". If anyone remembers the endless user-agent threads I was one of
the folks in the forefront of the major.minor.release camp. We lost, let's
move on please.
-Dan Veditz
