On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:40:17PM +1000, Owen wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:41:20 -0400
> Carol Spears <cspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > maybe we can jump it up to 2 simply because everyone seems to be
> > involved again :)
>
> Follow Mr Knuth's technique
> Call this one 1.4 which would be followed by
> 1.41 then
> 1.414 ... 1.4142136 ad infinitum
Important: Never round up that last digit! Or the next version will be
considered an earlier version - e.g. this would break RPM version number
checking (1.41421356 < 1.4142136).
> It's a cold, foggy grey miserable day...not much else to do :-)
After all, we could drop that number and use the number of digits as the
version.
Bye, Tino.
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