Re: Was the release of Debian 2.0 put on Linux Announce?
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 06:22:00PM +0200, Peter Gervai wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:39:26AM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
>
> > good point...and who even says version numbers have to work in that way
> > anyway?
> > Many individual programs have versions like "19980420" ...or what
> > if I want to start with 100 and count down ;) or increase it by powers of 3?
> > (yes these are even more silly...but still possible)
>
> check the version number of TeX!
Hehe. TeX and Metafont will NEVER catch up.
(FYI, kind reader, TeX's version number converges to PI=3.14159...
and Metafonts version number to exp(1)2.71828..., both in a monoton raising
sequence).
Marcus
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