On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:05:13 +0200 (CEST) neilhwatson wrote: 

n> I could kick whoever decided to use version numbers that are not
n> numbers.  This is a number 2.334.  This is not a number 3.4.3.

Please note 2.334 means a different number in many locales!  This is
*not* a simple problem!

(related: I grew up with "billion" meaning something very different from
what it means in British English)

Semantic versioning (see http://semver.org/) is IMHO the best thing to
happen to version strings since they were invented.  It's not everywhere
yet, but I've seen it consistently win over other proposals simply
because it makes sense.

Ted
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