On 2011-08-13 12:51, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
#2 and #3 don't really make sense between OSes, and I'd argue that they don't make much sense period. I don't know what they'd mean on Windows in any meaningful way. On Linux, I suppose that they could be the major and minor numbers of the kernel (e.g. 2 and 6 or 3 and 0), but that's pretty useless on Linux, given that they don't change very often. At this point, there would only really be two options: 2.6 and 3.0. And I don't know how major and minor could be applied to OS X or FreeBSD.
In Mac OS X you have three version numbers, for example: 10.6.8. Or at least two, don't know if I would call the first one a version number. I mean, Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 10 is two completely different operating systems.
So, with some work, it does seem like it could be possible to do #1, which might be useful, but I don't see much point in #2 or #3. - Jonathan M Davis
-- /Jacob Carlborg
