Version numbers (was Re: The FreeBSD diaries ... installing filePro for FreeBSD)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:32:47PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Except there is no such thing as filePro version "5.0.9", but rather
> "5.0.09", which makes the sequence "obvious".

To each their own, I guess; 5.0.9 === 5.0.09; leading zeros aren't
significant in version numbers, just as they aren't in everything
except zipcodes, which are not really numeric.  :-)
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