[YokoZar]

Note that Wine is one of those confusingly-versioned projects where 4.20 is the one that comes after 4.19

[viraptor]

I would say that's like pretty much every project out there. I can't come up with an example which matches the other case off the top of my head. Does that make other ones the confusing ones?

[YokoZar]

It's less confusing when there is more than 1 decimal point. 4.11.4 is clearly not a regular decimal number.

[dtech]

I don't know of any other software where x.10 does not come after x.9, or x.20 does not come after x.19 etc.

Some software increases the x before that though.

[SyneRyder]

Winamp used a decimal numbering scheme. Version 5.6 is followed by 5.601, then 5.62. There's also the obligatory v1.6 < v1.666 < v1.7 version numbering of Doom.

I think Windows 3.1 to 3.11 was another example of decimal version numbering, instead of calling it v3.1.1.

[chme]

Blenders version is a bit confusing sometimes. Officially its release 2.80 but that is very often called 2.8 even from official channels [1]. I was a bit confused when then announced 2.8 which is the version after 2.79.

[1] https://code.blender.org/2018/11/blender-2-8-beta/

[filmor]

They always count from 00 onwards with a leading 0, though (x.01, ... x.09, x.10 etc.).

The equivalent in the more common versioning scheme would be 2.8.0 which would then also be called 2.8.

[chme]

Well their scheme does leave some questions open: Does 3.00 need to come after 2.99 or can there be a 2.100? Or if its more like 2.8.x: Can ever be a x.x.10? (we are talking here more about the scheme that actual blender releases)

How I currently understand is its just 2 numbers and 2.8 is a simplification for meaning 2.8x.

[stkdump]

What would non-confusingly come after 4.19, just out of interest?

[mariomeissner]

He's probably thinking about decimal numbers, so 4.2 is expected instead of 4.20

[MaxBarraclough]

Perhaps 4.19a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Incrementi...