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Re:Docker: Lightweight Linux containers for consistent devel... by d23 on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @11:16AM (#7772994)
Just a sidenote, but why do some software projects consider 0.11 higher than 0.7? I remember when jQuery did this it broke tons of plugins that used a simple numerical comparison to see if the version was high enough (which seems sensible enough to me).
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Re:Docker: Lightweight Linux containers for consistent devel... by emddudley on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @12:39PM (#7773521)
0.11 is higher than 0.7 because version numbers aren't decimal numbers. The 0 is the "major" version number and the 11 or 7 is the "minor" version number. Many projects follow the Semantic Versioning convention.

http://semver.org/

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Re:Docker: Lightweight Linux containers for consistent devel... by freehunter on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @11:19AM (#7773009)
Because 11 is higher than 7. It's not version 0.1.1 or version "dot one one", it's version "dot eleven". Eleven is a bigger number than seven is.
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Re:Docker: Lightweight Linux containers for consistent devel... by tovmeod on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @04:21AM (#7777145)
it's true, 11 > 7 but 0.11 < 0.7
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Re:Docker: Lightweight Linux containers for consistent devel... by freehunter on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @09:35AM (#7778098)
Version numbers are not always decimal numbers.
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