Re: 0.01-6 > 0.1-3 ?????
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:02:41AM +1000, Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au> was heard to say:
> I realise that the current system still works, and 0.1 being equal to 0.01
> is a limitation that we can work around, but ideally the way we evaluate
> version numbers should correlate with the way most upstream authors
> evaluate version numbers.
Projects such as Linux (2.4.18 > 2.4.5), aptitude (0.2.11 > 0.2.2)
(ok, that one's a cheat), gaim (0.55 > 0.9), freeciv (1.12 > 1.2),
emacs (19.31 > 19.8), gcc (1.10 > 1.9), overkill (0.16 > 0.9),
apache (1.3.24 > 1.3.9), electricfence (2.1.13 > 2.1.9), .....?
Daniel
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