Hi
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why was Java 1.4 succeeded by Java 5? Why was ICU 4.8.1 succeeded by ICU > 49.1? Why does systemd have version 197 instead of 1.9.7 or somesuch? > > If you look at the source code and the package names, Java wasn't really > renumbered that badly, Java 1.4 was succeeded by Java 1.5, and Java 1.5 by > Java 1.6. They're just marketed misleadingly. Sun's desicsion to screw up > numbering this way is a reflection of when they tried to "SunOS 4" as > "Solaris 2.5". > > A better example is when the update of Red Hat 9 got renumbered and > updated to RHEL 2.x. And don't *get* me going on mod_perl numbering or CPAN > version numbering. (Whose bright idea was it to use floating point? Version > 2.237 is older than version 2.3 ?) > Red Hat 9 and RHEL 2.x were different products Rahul
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