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by mdxi (4658) on 2004.08.26 9:00 (#33709) Homepage Journal

There are so many standards for how version numbers work and what version numbers mean that they have become completely worthless except as an indicator that THIS version comes after THAT version.

I've finally settled on just having integers -- 0 for "Initial Development", 1 for "All Initial Features Implemented", 2 for "Next Batch Of Features", etc. -- followed by the revision number from the VC repository for fine-grained versioning (usually in parentheses like "R1 (163)", but following a dot for CPAN like "1.163").

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