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Re: Bump mainline version number

Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:

|> HJ's original objection, I *think*, was that - 2.14(.0) having just
|> been released - keeping with the existing scheme would mean that the
|> trunk should have version number 2.14.90.
|> 
|> As it happens I think the .90 suffix is a bad idea - not because
|> there's any real risk of the 2.14 release series catching up with it,
|> but because it "contributes to the pernicious misapprehension that
|> version numbers are decimal fractions."

Well, 2.14.90 doesn't really look like a floating point number.

Andreas.

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