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by tssva 1772 days ago
What are you going to do when it is August 11th 2121? Reuse the build number?
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Add a 1. in front. It earned it.
not a problem. it's physically impossible for any software to be maintained that long.

you can't prove me wrong

Sure I can. It will just take some time to do so.
If the project actually does last that long, I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to just extended the version by 2 digits to include the full year.
You mean that you're _sure_ that nothing will be dependent on the format of the version string of a >100yo project?

I'd bet everything I own against that

Is it a Mozilla project because that is some Mozilla type version inflation?
Instruct the AI to move the project to a versioning system that supports full calendar year.
This is a solved problem.

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