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Re:MAME 0.276 by surgical_fire on Sunday March 30, 2025 @07:54PM (#43529077)
I personally find it nicer than that obtuse Chrome approach that is now versioned in the hundreds.

Perhaps it is nostalgia, but things were nicer when they had sane release numbers.

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Re:MAME 0.276 by Uvix on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:10PM (#43529177)
MAME is versioned no differently from Chrome. v0.276 might as well be called v276.
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Re:MAME 0.276 by surgical_fire on Sunday March 30, 2025 @08:43PM (#43529394)
If Chrome was versioned 0.whatever I would agree.

Since it is not, you are factually wrong.

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Re:MAME 0.276 by fb03 on Sunday March 30, 2025 @09:02PM (#43529540)
The 0. prat is irrelevant in MAME, you can see that both projects simply increment the number on every release. They could just as well do v<timestamp> and reap the same monotonically increasing thing with a temporality aspect as well.
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Re:MAME 0.276 by g-b-r on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:26PM (#43530577)
I'm with you about that ;)
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Re:MAME 0.276 by 7bit on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @05:56AM (#43544866)
It's just a number. What makes v102 more sane than vX.Y? It's just what you're used to and personal preference.
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