Thank you Eric for such a thorough explanation. Very nice.
I think my point is purely from a marketing perspective. For the
number-inclined people such as accountants and software developers, this
all makes perfect sense. However, for the ordinary folk the system can
be confusing. So perhaps
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 02:14:31PM -0500, davel...@mac.com wrote:
> Yes, 2.6.18 is newer. Each number between the periods is a
> separate number and 18 is greater than 3.
To expand on that: software version numbers don't work like
decimal fractions, even though they use "." as a separator.
