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[–] grissee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

why don't they use a friendlier naming scheme? such as 0.18.1a 0.18.1b 0.18.2 ?

[–] degrix@lemmy.hqueue.dev 10 points 2 years ago

As others have mentioned there’s a standardized versioning scheme that most developers use and that standard is semantic versioning: https://semver.org. There are other standards too and not every development team uses a standard that is externally recognized standard.

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