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[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Geez!  I thought this was settled centuries ago !-)  T


At 01:34 PM 7/16/00 +0300, you wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 06:09:11AM +0300, Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:
>> But there's a standards problem: some people have used
>> 
>> 	0.1
>> 	0.2
>> 	0.3
>> ...
>> 	0.9
>> 	0.10
>> 	0.11
>> 
>> and other use them as numbers; 0.11 is between 0.1 and 0.2.
>> It's common enough to make me want to avoid it.
>
>True.  Nevertheless, in my own programs I've used the first scheme with
>no problems.
>
>> > (Think of 0.10 being newer than 0.9.)
>> 
>> Yuck. NEVER.
>
>What's the problem (beyond the above)?  You just need to consider the
>version number as consisting of period-separated natural number fields.
>
>This is, for example, the version scheme imposed by dpkg on packages
>(except that dpkg uses alphanumeric fields).
>
>> > > 0.0.1: I dislike non-floating-point versions.
>> > 
>> > And I dislike floating-point versions :-)
>> 
>> For what reason?
>
>I'll quote you: "yuck".  It's a personal preference.
>
>> > > Any reason in particular to use those?
>> > 
>> > It's just that it's more standard.  (At least where I come from.)
>> 
>> 0.01 is pretty much standard on CPAN.
>
>Perl (including the stuff on CPAN) is about the only one using this
>style, AFAIK.
>
>Anyway, it's your and Ted's call.
>-- 
>%%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % gaia@xxxxxx % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%
>
>
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