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by orra 1033 days ago
Fair. But, at least later on, that wasn't universal. There's x.odd for development releases, and x.even for proper releases. GNOME and Linux used to do this.

Also it feels like a lot of projects used to use 0.x numbers, even when they were widely used and stable!

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Indeed. And then there is the TeX versioning scheme.