I had a dream

[Brian Gough]

Every external release should (and does) use the standard convention
x.y(.z), of course. We use a different convention like 0.5+ to avoid
confusion between temporary internal versions and external releases.
This was pointed out to me by Mark.

Gerard Jungman writes:
 > "Christopher R. Gabriel" wrote:
 > > 
 > > Nope, it's not fine :)) the AM_PATH_GSL macro fails if it don't find a
 > > 3 number version. It better to use my solution (IMHO), using
 > > $GSL_VERSION as a string concatenation of GSL_MAJOR, _MINOR and
 > > _MICRO.
 > > 
 > > What about a 0.5.1 instead of a 0.5+ ?
 > 
 > Indeed. What the hell is 0.5+ supposed to mean anyway?
 > Computing on planet Earth is already too confusing;
 > can we stick to a standard convention for the version
 > numbers please?
 > 
 > --
 > G. Jungman
 > 
 > 
 >