MERC HAVEN

This always amuses me. As if the kernel version of 2.6.20.16.28.1 was too short, here are a couple more to marvel at:

Opensource version numbers from the Ubuntu repository:

• The commented version number
  
  libqt3-mt - 3:3.3.8really3.3.7-0ubuntu5.1


• The dfsg version number
  
  libmagick9 - 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.14ubuntu0.1


• The source package version number
  
  libnss3 - 2:1.firefox2.0.0.6+1-0ubuntu1


• The kernel module version number
  
  nvidia-glx-legacy - 1.0.7184+2.6.20.5-16.29


• The compulsively specific version number
  
  freewnn-common - 1.1.0+1.1.1-a021-1.1


• The all-in-one cvs tag version number
  
  faad - 2.0.0+cvs20040908+mp4v2+bmp-0ubuntu3


• The usual timestamp version number
  
  ippd - 1:3.10.20070306-0ubuntu1


• The holy-crap-you-win version number
  
  comerr-dev - 2.1-1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2ubuntu1

Then there are Microsoft version numbers like
6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2gdr.050301-1519 (Internet Explorer 6).

In terms of actual point numbers, the linux kernel image of 2.6.20.16.28.1 pales in comparison to a Drupal based shopping cart's version number of 1.125.2.23.2.17.2.50. That's a whole eight levels of nesting!

I gave up on such schemes long time ago. Everything I code has only a serially increasing 'build number' which starts from 1 and goes up to however many times I change and re-build it ...

Posted by Prashant on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 8/30/2007 06:22:00 AM | Permalink