On 2008-01-17, at 11:46, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-01-15, at 15:44, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I argue that it *will* make things worse for the members of the
third group for two critical reasons.
Worse than just using a date, which contains *zero* information,
because it's something you have anyway?
Not after it's installed.
"Man, you haven't updated anything on this system since 1999".
i think that all the caveats and hedges and exceptions and
conflicting interpretations of versions that have come up in this
thread pretty much say it all.
I must have been reading a different thread, because there only seem
to be two exceptions for projects that are actually using real sub-
version numbers: PHP, which is made of hate, and the hateful "odd
number" rule. It doesn't seem to me at all hard to avoid these traps
(particularly the first... surely nobody's going to be daft enough to
recreate PHP).
