On 1 Apr 2009, at 19:14, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Craig Silverstein wrote:
>
>> } The next release after this one will have to be 8.0,
>>
>> You could do 7.10...
>
> Good thinking! Yes, of course I could.
Please don't - it makes things unnecessarily painful for downstream
packagers.
Some packaging formats treat version numbers as though they are
decimals - in which case 7.10 and 7.1 will probably compare the same,
and 7.9 and 7.10 will compare in the wrong order. Others treat each
separated number set as a number, so 7.9 to 7.10 works, and still
others use a string comparison. (again 7.9 to 7.10 is not an increment).
Its much safer to zero pad the second and subsequent components of a
version number, so a move to 8.000 or similar would make downstream
packagers much happer.
Nigel.
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