Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo

Re:Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo by poulpy123 on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:18PM (#44636988)

I was very confused the first time I encountered the x.y notation because I was wondering why version 1.15 was more recent than version 1.9... but now I'm used to it, even if I still find it very stupid, and I would be as confused when seeing a version 1.9 more recent than a 1.15

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Re:Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo by xena on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:29PM (#44637106)

You'd love Final Fantasy 14's versioning scheme. Here's the most recent patches in order:

* 7.0: the expansion Dawntrail

* 7.1: Crossroads, a post-expansion story/content patch

* 7.11: A new ultimate raid

* 7.15: More side content and the first chaotic alliance raid

* 7.16: More role quests

* 7.2: Seekers of Eternity story quests and more Arcadion normal raids (Cruiserweight)

* 7.21: Cosmic Exploration (crafter/gatherer power leveling area)

* 7.25: Occult Crescent (field operation)

* 7.3: The Promise of Tomorrow story quests (slated to come out early next month)

This version progression breaks my brain because I am very used to semantic versioning.

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Re:Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo by jabjq on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:40PM (#44637262)

Same as wow. It makes more sense like this. Maybe the issue is that some interpret what look like decimal numbers but are not decimal numbers as decimal numbers.

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Re:Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo by all2 on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:32PM (#44637146)

Am I parsing this right? Are we adding a place to the version number to denote 'this change is in the 2s'?

So we went from v0 to v10, then to v11, then v15, and so on?

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Re:Perl Versioning Scheme and Gentoo by goku12 on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:58PM (#44637490)

Just speculating. They may be treating versions like decimal fractions. Thus, 7.16 < 7.2. But I can't say that this is the best place to use that concept.

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