XFCE developers don't understand numbers

[NickStone]

Whilst browsing the XFCE forums I came across this http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5758. Their current version is 4.8 but their next version will be 4.10. In maths terms .8 is higher than .10 which is the same as writing 0.1.

I would have thought computer programmers would understand numbers!

[arochester]

But version numbering isn't mathematics.

The Ubuntu numbering system is just the year and the month e.g. 11.04 then 11.10.

Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_k...sion_numbering . Logical or not?

[kubicle]

Like arochester said, the dots in version numbering are not decimal separators, but number separators. (like kde sc 4.8.1 > 4.8.2 >skipping a few releases> 4.10.2. If they were, there would be no *sane* way to increase sub-version numbers beyond 9.

And even in mathematics, the use a period as a decimal separator is not universal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal...numeral_system