Author: Stefan Zipproth
Date: 09:29:02 05/11/03
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>I guess that you are missing that 21>4.
>I think that there is no way to decide if 4.21 is newer than 4.4
>
>A programmer may start with 4.1 and every time that he makes a small
>improvememnt add 1 to the part after "4.".
>
>It may get also 4.101 in the future.
>
>Maybe to prevent that problem programmers may use fixed number of digits after
>the "." and never have 4.4 and 4.21 but only 4.040 and 4.210 and 4.400
>
>Uri
The point is no decimal point. The number before the "." is the version number,
the one after the "." is the revision number. To my knowledge, this is standard
and also used by Crafty (18.8, 18.9, 18.10, 18.11.....).
A google search:
"version number" "revision number" "x.y"
results in 738 confirmations for this :-)
Stefan
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