Use letters for the second part.
2.a.7. 2.b.12 Just to be different. Everybody already uses numbers ... so mundane. On 23 Jan 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > Heh, one of my personal pet peeves is that people don't use string > libraries where xxx123xxx sorts ahead of xxx20xxx -- I can't really > think of any situation ever where you would want sorting to happen the > other way. Ever. I remember back in the early 90s a guy I knew at > Stanford wrote an extension for the Mac which patched the System 7 > internal StringCompare function to redefine sorting in this way, so that > things like the Finder would just work right when sorting numbered > files. I thought it was an absolutely elegant hack, and have endeavored > to follow its example since whenever writing a string compare routine > for any reason. Being a stubborn SOB, I tend therefore to use a natural > file numbering, version numbering, etc system without superfluous zeros, > and simply to encourage people in the outside world to get their > string-sorting acts collectively together. > > C > > On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 14:54, dman wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:43:47PM +0000, Ged Haywood wrote: > | Hi there, > | > | On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Donald Greer wrote: > | > | > Might I suggest a 2-prong numbering system (similar to Linux Kernel) > | [snip] > | > So, perhaps the release posted this morning would be "2.0.0"? and the > | > devel release "2.1.0"? (or maybe "2.1.2023 -- 2.1.[4-digit julian date]) > | > so that the numbering could be handled automagically by the cron scripts > | > | I'd suggest a two digit minor version number, for example 2.01.2023 > | rather than 2.1.2023, because then we don't have the stupidity of > | version 2.2.2023 being older than 2.14.4096 (like Apache does it:). > > It doesn't make it older, just that string sorting no longer matches > version ordering. A minor detail, as far as I am concerned. (I don't > really care which textual style is used) > > -D > > -- > > After you install Microsoft Windows XP, you have the option to create > user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have > an account type of administrator with no password. > -- bugtraq > > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > > > -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
