[cvsnt] Re: Version number change
David Somers
dsomers at omz13.com
Tue Jul 12 23:07:22 BST 2005
John Peacock wrote:
> FWIW, zero-padded versions will always sort correctly as ASCII strings,
> whereas structured versions will not. For example, sorting as ASCII:
>
> 1.2.3.09
> 1.2.3.10
>
> vs
> 1.2.3.10
> 1.2.3.9
Which is a *very* good reason to pad you numbers.
Meanwhile, can we drop the debate on version numbers and get onto a far more
serious topic: when will codename Travis be dropped and who will be the
next codename? ;-)
(That last para is said very much with tongue-in-cheek.)
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