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Re:Chronologic Versioning: No more arbitrary version updates... by Dylan16807 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:26AM (#21934518)
> After all, macOS 2017.09.25 seems far more descriptive than "10.13", which means nothing to anyone.

And then 2017.09.28.83456, 2017.09.28.83457, and 2017.09.28.83458 all come out at the same time.

One is a patch to El Capitan, one is a patch to Sierra, and one is a patch to High Sierra.

There's absolutely no way to tell which is which.

Go ahead and refer to Catalina as 2019.10 or 19.10 or 1910. But keep the same prefix when patching it.

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Re:Chronologic Versioning: No more arbitrary version updates... by NetOpWibby on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @12:39AM (#21977243)
Wouldn't it be something like this?

- 2017.09.28-capitan - 2017.09.28-sierra - 2017.09.28-highsierra

These are perfectly valid in the spec.

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