Re: [Gnu-arch-users] What are version numbers?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Zack Brown <address@hidden>

    > > Hmm.  Probably too late, though.

    > Not really. Just implement both "category--branch--version" and
    > "category--series--branch", but deprecate the former. tla could detect 
which
    > one was in use because "version" (or "series") is composed only of numbers
    > and periods while "branch" is almost certainly alphabetical.

    > Older projects could continue to do what they're doing, while newer
    > projects could use the clearer syntax.


Why is one "clearer" than the other, exactly?


-t