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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:07:03 -0000
From: Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>
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To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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        Alex Bligh - linux-kernel <linux-kernel@alex.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Release Policy [was: Linux 2.4.16  ]
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--On Monday, 26 November, 2001 4:18 PM -0500 Gregory Maxwell 
<greg@linuxpower.cx> wrote:

> Why not just disguard this sillyness of alphabetic characters in version
> numbers

Express version numbers as a real number. Only the versions with
perfectly accurate binary representations of irrational numbers
will be bug-free release candidates :-p

--
Alex Bligh
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