Shoutbox

With version numbering, it acts as cookie says, differently to decimals.  You actually remove leading zeros rather than trailing zeros in version numbers.

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Originally posted by wikipedia @ [url
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning]As[/url] an example of surprising version number ordering implementation behavior, in Debian, leading zeroes are ignored in chunks, so that 5.0005 and 5.5 are considered as equal, and 5.5<5.0006

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Although this does not comply with numerical understandings and mathematics in general, it is very logical as you never know how many versions or builds a computer program is going to have.

Personally when I saw 4.5 on the main website I was a little disappointed.

Patchou uses a version similar system to WLM, however it is more like

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<major version> . <minor version> <revision> . <build>

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This method might not comply with the norm, but it is very easy to understand AND is still a very easy to understand and logical format.  You might say that only the major and minor version are needed, but Plus! has always been shown with it's revision number as well....