From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-09-16T22:21:17+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.9

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:58 PM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> No, Matz announced about a year ago that instead of even minor version
> numbers indicating production vs. experimental/development, a teeny version
> number > 0 would be the new indication, So 1.9.1 will be production.
>
> Seems he is afraid of running out of digits.

Mostly unrelated, but it actually may be so.  Matz hates the idea of
something like 1.8.10, though I don't exactly remember the story about
it.  I think it has to do with comparison of version numbers as
strings, or something else.  Maybe someone here knows the back story.

-greg

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