On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 11:08 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
A:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
That is called an arithmetic progression (from my school days)
B:
231 2735 2746 3458 5216 ...
does not resemble a geometric progression.
Lets have a LOGICAL numbering system. How about
Centos 6.6-1503 ........
derived from {major}{sub}{yymm}.
But what happens when 2 or more revisions occur within the same month ?
Will we have Centos 7.1504 and 7.1504a and 7.1504c or will someone decide to use 7.1505 (= May 2015) whilst still in April ?
Clarity is important in all things 'computer'.
Valeri
- whereas in case A given you have [sub]version number 4 you definitely
know that adjacent previous is 3 and adjacent following will be 5. Case B is different: unless you have the whole row of legal numbers in front of you, you will not be able to guess whether 2746 and 3458 are consecutive versions, or there is one or more versions between them.
- comparison of two version in case A easily reveals which is earlier and
which is higher, in case B it is not quite so (you can try to time yourself on comparison of random natural number in 10000 range and compare that to the case of natural numbers 0-9, you will know what I mean), and hence prone to higher chance of error (and don't second guess me: I always has A+ in mathematics in school and university ;-). This is just a trivial human psychology...
Maths was my favourite school subject too.