The old version name versus version number debate..

[Toby Smithe]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 20:57 +1300, Tim Frost wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 19:40 +0000, Toby Smithe wrote:
> 
> > You can't control what people write. You can give them a name, and you
> > can give them a number, but you cannot make them conform to just one, or
> > either. 
> And you can't force people to quote the numbers correctly.  A lot of
> people in IRC are referring to '5.1' or '6.1' rather than the correct
> '5.10' or '6.10'.

Yes; I have seen that. However, they will soon learn, when someone
corrects them or they read something relating to their erroneous
version, that they are in error. They will find out soon enough that .1
isn't a minor version, nor 6 a major; but a month and date respectively.