[smnrchrds]

This conversation resurfaces every time a project gets to x.10 version number, e.g. KDE SC 4.10. Considering even HN audience which are mostly programmers find this versioning scheme confusing, I wish we have had settled on another identifier to separate minor and major version numbers. Something that didn't have a mathematical meaning. I personally like : and ::

[chrismorgan]

One could use the pretty standard tuple notation: Rust (0, 9), KDE SC (4, 10). It's pretty common to represent version numbers in ways not dissimilar from that internally…