Re: 5.1: LUA_VERSION_NUM

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Peter Kümmel wrote:
> lua.h:
>
> #define LUA_VERSION	"Lua 5.1 (alpha)"
> #define LUA_VERSION_NUM	501
>
> 501 reads like 5.01, isn't 510 the

The latest versions of Lua 5.0 is 5.0.1, not 5.01.

> correct dotless number for 5.10?

We are not yet at 5.10, let's have 5.1, then 5.2, 5.3... 5.9 before...

IMHO, one great mistake about version numbers is to see them as float 
numbers...

Microsoft uses officially four numbers in versions, something like 
5.1.22.125: major, minor, bugfix release and build number or something 
along these lines.

Yet, they goofed, releasing a Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups) after 3.1, 
without versions 3.2, ... 3.10.
It probably didn't helped against the confusion.

Of course, since that's mostly a convention, nothing prevent you to use 
whatever notation that fits you, but I believe the multi-dot notation is 
used in many open source projects.

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