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On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > > One reason is that we don't have to update :version fields and
> > > documentation if there is a well defined versioning scheme.
> > 
> > I sincerely doubt that the version-update problem will go away with 
> > _any_ versioning scheme.
> 
> It will "go away" if the versioning scheme ensures that the version
> number of a release can be determined long before the release happens
> (i.e. is independent of any other release that might happen in the
> mean time).

That's exactly what I doubt will ever happen.  Humans are too imperfect.