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why is it like this? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing I don't like about that versioning system is the ambiguity that can sometimes arise due to different interpretations of what the numbers after the first dot mean.

You could either say: It's a decimal system, therefore 3.4 is bigger (comes after) 3.13. (3.4 > 3.13) or, The numbers after each dot are independent, therefore 13 is bigger than 4, so 13 is the newer release.

It's usually fairly obvious from changelings but every now and then I get tripped up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

For versioning I always viewed the numbers as independent from each other, just like with ip addresses.