Re: Proposal: Debian release numbers

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:58:21PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
>
> > > How about using whole number increments -- in ROMAN NVMERALS.
> > > The next version would be Debian IV r1 (for 'release 1').
> > > The first revision of it as a stable release would be Debian IV r2.
> >
> > Actually, why not? This will (kinda) prevent direct comparisons with
> > other Distros/OSs because it looks totally different. IV, 8.1, 2003. No
> > real comparision possible, I'd say. And it would make Debian look really
> > special (which I think is a positive thing).
>
>
> As a computer scientist I cannot support the use of any numbering system
> which by its very nature prevents zero-indexing!  ;^)
>
> noah
In that case, I propose Mayan numerals as seen in the Long Count on 
stelae (vertical, least significant lowest):

3, release 2:

 ...
 ..

5, release 0:

_____
 <=>

5, release 1:

_____
  .

Of course, you really need name glyphs for version and release to the 
left, and the zero glyph could look a lot better, but I don't think 
UTF-8 has anything to help.  :-)


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