[cvsnt] Re: Version number change

David Somers dsomers at omz13.com
Tue Jul 12 23:07:22 BST 2005


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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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