Charlie Markwick wrote: > Katharina > > Am I stupid or what, thanks for the prompt reply. > > Katharina Wolkwitz wrote: > > Charlie Markwick schrieb am 13.02.2009 09:43: >> >> It says "In MediaWiki version 1.5 and later ...". However the latest >> version that can be downloaded is 1.13.4 can someone enlighten me? > > The versions are counted continually, so 1.5 is followed by 1.6, 1.7, > 1.8 and so on. 1.13.4 is later (and so more current) than 1.13.3 or > 1.10.1
No need for the red face. It's not necessarily obvious that version numbers are not really decimal numbers. With decimal numbers, 1.1 is equivalent to 1.10 but not so with version numbers. Likewise if we look at 1.1, 1.11, 1.12, 1.2, with version numbers these are sorted 1.1, 1.2, 1.11, 1.12 rather than in their numerical order. The trick is to read 1.13 as one-point-thirteen rather than one-point-one-three and treat the decimal place as a separator, not a decimal point. I suppose if we always knew there would be less than 100 sub-version numbers, we could start with 1.01 and work towards 1.99 and it would make more sense. This seems to be more and more universal across software projects. -- Henry _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
