On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:02:52AM -0700, Adrian McCarthy via cfe-dev wrote: > > Most free and open-source software packages, including MediaWiki, treat > > versions as a series of individual numbers, separated by periods, with a > > progression such as 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.11.1, > > 1.11.2, and so on. On the other hand, some software packages identify > > releases by decimal numbers: 1.7, 1.8, 1.81, 1.82, 1.9, etc. > > > Note that 81 > 8, so those examples would still work. But 3.10 is easy to > misinterpret as 3.1.
The only environment I know where such an interpreation is popular is CPAN. Everyone else effectively uses Dewey-style interpretation. So yes, some crappy software might mishandle 3.10 by using patterns like 3.1* and not 3.1.*, but I don't believe catering to broken software is very useful. Joerg _______________________________________________ lldb-dev mailing list lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev
