Jaap Keuter wrote: > Hi, > > So isn't it time now to 'correct' the development release number from 1.0.99 > to 1.1.0?
I've never liked this sort of version numbers since string comparisons don't sort them correctly. Consider GTK's: #define GTK_CHECK_VERSION(major,minor,micro) \ (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION > (major) || \ (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION == (major) && GTK_MINOR_VERSION > (minor)) || \ (GTK_MAJOR_VERSION == (major) && GTK_MINOR_VERSION == (minor) && \ GTK_MICRO_VERSION >= (micro))) #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION(2,4,10) and Motif's: #define XmVersion (XmVERSION * 1000 + XmREVISION) #if XmVersion>2003 all caused by pseudo numeric version numbers. 1.0.99 would logically be followed by 1.0.100, but "1.0.99" > "1.0.100" Can we start from now at "1.01.000"? A hundred point releases each with a thousand patch levels should be enough for anyone. (With apologies to Bill Gates.) -- There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- Dr. Who _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev