Lenroc posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:15:47 -0700:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 02:21:28 -0700, Duncan wrote: > >> One of the questions I asked was with .9x releases coming pretty fast, >> what happens after .99? He said .100. Just in case anyone besides me >> was wondering. =8^) > > We use a versioning scheme like this at work, and it confuses our > customers. > > "22.8 must be newer than 22.79, right?" =8^) Not entirely unusual for FLOSS*, tho, as I'm sure you are aware. Package managers and distributions have all sorts of interesting challenges trying to devise a distribution versioning scheme that works for everything, yet still offers the flexibility necessary for distribution-specific revisions. Even then, every once in awhile something comes along and screws things up, and some arbitrary choices and special exceptions have to be made. You are absolutely correct, however. Kids get decimals drilled into them in school and just when they think they have it down, along comes software, with its decimal defying versioning schemes! <g> * Free/libre and open source software, as most on this list probably know already. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
