Highest version number

Highest version number

[Jan Djärv]

Hi.

Picked this up on slashdot.  We got to get 23.1 out so we can claim the 
highest version number used.

http://technologizer.com/2009/07/14/version-numbers/

	Jan D.

Re: Highest version number

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Picked this up on slashdot.  We got to get 23.1 out so we can claim the 
   highest version number used.

Not to spoil the fun, but less is at version 418.

Re: Highest version number

[Jason Rumney]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Picked this up on slashdot.  We got to get 23.1 out so we can claim the 
>    highest version number used.
>
> Not to spoil the fun, but less is at version 418.
>   

The version of less here is 429, and that's on Debian which is usually 
behind the times.

Re: Highest version number

[Miles Bader]

Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
>>    Picked this up on slashdot.  We got to get 23.1 out so we can claim
>> the    highest version number used.
>>
>> Not to spoil the fun, but less is at version 418.
>
> The version of less here is 429, and that's on Debian which is usually
> behind the times.

ams still uses rmail...

-miles

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Re: Highest version number

[Sebastian Rose]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    Picked this up on slashdot.  We got to get 23.1 out so we can claim the 
>    highest version number used.
>
> Not to spoil the fun, but less is at version 418.

...yes, but emacs version numbers are meant to be read as


  21.001.050.001



   Sebastian

Re: Highest version number

[Jan Djärv]

Alfred M. Szmidt skrev:
>    Picked this up on slashdot.  We got to get 23.1 out so we can claim the 
>    highest version number used.
> 
> Not to spoil the fun, but less is at version 418.
>

Well, it isn't really a version number as all versions inbetween hasn't been 
released.  If you say 4.18 then it would qualify.

	Jan D.

Re: Highest version number

[Davis Herring]

> Picked this up on slashdot.  We got to get 23.1 out so we can claim the
> highest version number used.

I would think that for the purpose of version number comparisons, we would
really be releasing 1.23.1 anyway.

Davis

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too sparse, it is because mass-energy conversion has occurred during
shipping.

Re: Highest version number

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    Picked this up on slashdot.  We got to get 23.1 out so we can
   >    claim the highest version number used.
   > 
   > Not to spoil the fun, but less is at version 418.

   Well, it isn't really a version number as all versions inbetween
   hasn't been released.  If you say 4.18 then it would qualify.

less version number scheme is based on how many times less was
compiled by the maintainer, I doubt that he compiled less 4.18 times.

Re: Highest version number

[Richard Stallman]

    ams still uses rmail...

That seems to have been meant as a gratuitous insult.
I do not see anything wrong about using Rmail, but you
seem to intend it that way.

It is not acceptable to insult against other contributors.
Please do not do it ever again.

Re: Highest version number

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>     ams still uses rmail...
>
> That seems to have been meant as a gratuitous insult.

It was a joke.

[If ams saw it as an insult, I apologize -- it certainly wasn't meant as one.]

-miles

-- 
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it
has to be us.  -- Jerry Garcia

Re: Highest version number

[Richard Stallman]

How about writing a smiley after a joke that takes the form of an insult?