[megapatch]

Maybe it is time to consider INvers, irrational number versioning, as used in eg TeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

In TeX the version approaches Pi, every new version adds a decimal. Elegant, will hold forever!

TeX 3.141592653 is 45 years old. Its companion Metafont has version number 2.71828182, you can see where this is going.

[xigoi]

Donald Knuth intentionally chose this versioning scheme to point out how much he trusts his software to never change.